At some time during our diabetic self-discovery, we are told that diabetes — like most chronic illnesses — is often accompanied by a second "D": depression. Considering the amount of time we need to put into consideration of our diets, exercise, drugs, and doctor visits — and how much that takes out of what would otherwise be disposable income — it’s hardly surprising. Nor should it come to anyone’s surprise that this level of attention to detail often smacks of another mental-health issue: obsessive-compulsive disorder, or OCD. It is considered "normal" — even encouraged — for people with diabetes to arrange our lives around our blood glucose levels, logging every single reading, every single milligram of metformin or subunit of insulin, weighing and logging every single morsel of food or fluid that passes our lips, every step of exercise, every moment of every day of our lives.

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Six year old Rebecca Farrar who suffers from diabetes with her medical assistance dog Shirley.

U.S. researchers say they’ve discovered a previously unknown cause of the death of insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas, a core defect in diabetes.

The Kitsap County Health District and reports from the Bremerton and Central Kitsap school districts indicate that diabetes rates among youth have been static during the past several years.

ProtoKinetix , a biotechnology company that has developed and patented a family of synthetic anti-aging glycopeptides for medicine, biotechnology and cosmetic industries stated that it has repeatedly demonstrated the ability of their AAGP molecule to protect against the attacks of the most hostile inflammation causing agents known.