Francisco Zepeda is a 54-year-old native of El Salvador who owns an insurance agency in San Francisco.  Type 2 diabetes runs in his family. He says, “My grandmother lived with diabetes for about 30 years, and my father has it as well. I heard about diabetes all that time, but I never thought that it was going to happen to me. And I still hope that I’m not really diabetic. They say that once your blood sugar goes up, then you are diabetic, but I don’t want to believe that I’m diabetic, you know what I mean?”

People with diabetes may have a slightly increased risk of developing Parkinson’s disease, a new study suggests — though the reasons for the link, researchers say, are far from clear.

Diabetes mellitus in dogs is a serious health condition which can prove life threatening.

Rates of foot and leg amputations in people with diabetes may have decreased in recent years, according to a new study of patients at Veterans Affairs clinics.