diabetes

Scientists on Friday unveiled a revised classification for diabetes, one they said could lead to better treatments and help doctors more accurately predict life-threatening complications from the disease. Rather than the two currently recognized, they reported in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, a leading medical ...

The health ministry plans to launch a system to encourage welfare recipients suspected of suffering lifestyle diseases such as diabetes to receive early-stage treatment, according to sources. An advance project to assess the system's effectiveness will be conducted in the next fiscal year, the sources ...

High blood pressure was redefined Monday by the American Heart Association, which said the disease should be treated sooner, when it reaches 130/80 mm Hg, not the previous limit of 140/90. Doctors now recognize that complications "can occur at those lower numbers," said the first ...

Hiroji Kondo, 60, an exorcist from Tochigi Prefecture who is suspected of killing a 7-year-old diabetic boy by persuading his parents to discontinue insulin injections, has confessed to conducting exorcisms for over a decade, police said. Kondo, from the town of Shimotsuke in Tochigi Prefecture, ...

A 60-year-old man in Tochigi Prefecture who claims he is an exorcist was arrested Thursday on suspicion of killing a diabetic boy by telling his parents to halt the administration of insulin, police said. Hiroji Kondo is suspected of instructing the parents of Shun Imai, ...

Diabetes is posing an increasing health threat in Russia as the obesity rate grows.

A jury ordered Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. to pay ¥154 million ($1.3 million) in punitive damages to a former teacher who argued the drugmaker's Actos diabetes medicine caused his bladder cancer, in the company's fifth loss in trials over the drug. Jurors in state court in ...

Hanshin Tigers lefty Minoru Iwata on Saturday promised to win 15 games next season in order to encourage fellow diabetics. Attending a Christmas party for children afflicted with the same Type 1 diabetes that affects him, the 31-year-old Iwata said, "I will aim to win ...