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LISBON, PORTUGAL - MAY 29: A mask-clad Nova Medical School final-year student gives a woman a blood glucose test to check possible diabetes at a screening post in Alameda Dom Afonso Henriques during the COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic on May 29, 2021 in Lisbon, Portugal. Nova Medical School final-year students perform free cardiovascular screening, hypertension, diabetes and obesity check-ups to passers-by in a joint project with Lisbon's Areeiro Parish (Photo by Horacio Villalobos#Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images)

Is covid-19 causing a global surge of diabetes cases?

19 April 2022

Many clinics are reporting people diagnosed with diabetes during or soon after an infection with the coronavirus - but the picture is more complicated than it appears
Can a low-carb diet really help shed weight and reverse diabetes?

Can a low-carb diet really help shed weight and reverse diabetes?

12 September 2018

UK politician Tom Watson has hailed a low-carb diet for his massive weight loss and "reversal" of type 2 diabetes, and now he wants to help tackle the country's obesity crisis
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There may be five kinds of diabetes, not just types 1 and 2

1 March 2018

Researchers propose splitting diabetes into five subtypes instead of the current type 1 and type 2 diagnoses. It may help, but we need to know much more

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