Talking with nearly 150 children and their parents, the Nemours Children's Clinic researcher Amanda Lochrie, PhD, discovered that kids and parents both underestimated how serious the children's weight problems were.

For people with type 2 diabetes or pre-diabetes, it seems that vitamin D allows the body to secrete more insulin.

Diabetes can make the kidneys' job particularly hard. Robert Toto, MD, is tackling the problem by looking for indicators that would tell doctors who is most likely to develop kidney disease in the first place.

Rodica Pop-Busui, MD, PhD, is looking at the impact of diet and exercise on the nerves that help keep the heart beating smoothly.

For newborns with diabetes, management of their condition is profoundly difficult. Until five years ago, doctors assumed that some babies just developed type 1 diabetes extremely early. New research has revealed a different explanation.

Founded in 1994, the Research Foundation is part of the overall ADA research program, which funds more than $40 million in grants each year. ADA is unique in that 100 percent of donations to the Research Foundation go directly to research into type 1 and type 2 diabetes.

Research is finding that a substance called resveratrol may lower blood glucose—and even extend life.

Two out of three Americans over the age of 60 exercise less than 30 minutes a week. Kimberlee Gretebeck, PhD, RN, explores how best to help people with diabetes increase their activity level.

Better understanding how gestational diabetes affects mothers—and why—could lead to intervention programs that help mothers and children down the road. With funding from ADA, Erika Gunderson, PhD, has made some interesting discoveries.

Could growing up in a cleaner world be limiting the effectiveness of our immune systems—and contributing to the rise in type 1 diabetes?

For reasons doctors aren’t sure of, people with diabetes are more prone to plaque, the gunk that can narrow arteries causing atherosclerosis and heart disease. Peter Reaven, with the help of a grant from the American Diabetes Association, recently began research to find ways people with diabetes can protect themselves from plaque.  

Epidemiologists estimate that half of the Latino children born in the year 2000 will develop diabetes at some point in their lives. But why latinos? It’s a mystery researchers like Michael Goran are eager to figure out.

Nicole Stob, PhD, has bad news for people trying to keep weight off. Fat, it seems, sometimes has a mind of its own.

Bacteria can form slimy layers called biofilms, which show up in diabetic wounds--such as foot ulcers--and interfere with healing. Kendra Rumbaugh researches ways to stop biofilms before wounds lead to amputations.

From a mass of survey and cognitive test results, Francine Grodstein is unearthing some striking truths about diabetes, memory, diet, and gender.

Can omega-3 fatty acids help people with diabetes shed pounds? Scott Weigle and Mario Kratz teamed up to test the hypothesis. Their research yielded answers as well as more questions.

William Kwok, PhD, and colleagues are looking into why T-cells make the ultimate mistake.

Researchers are studying why Arizona's Pima Indian population has the highest prevalence of diabetes in the world.

For those with diabetes, poor numeracy—the math equivalent of illiteracy—can have serious consequences.