About 1.9 million people in the United States have type 1 diabetes, including an estimated 244,000 kids and teens, according to the American Diabetes Association. And though type 1 diabetes is ...

What is the difference between Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes? What about pre-diabetes? And how does insulin resistance factor in? Here's what to know.

Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune condition in which a person’s immune system attacks the insulin-producing cells of the pancreas, and it can no longer make insulin.

Formerly known as juvenile diabetes, type 1 diabetes can develop at any age. Learn how it progresses differently among children and adults and what screening options exist.

People with type 1 diabetes must constantly rely on insulin injections or pumps, usually for the rest of their life after diagnosis. The autoimmune disease destroys the cells that produce the hormone, ...

Mattel is releasing a Barbie doll that has Type 1 diabetes that comes with a glucose monitor and insulin pump.

Currently, stem cells and transplants are reserved for people whose diabetes cannot be controlled by the standard treatments.

Lance Bass has revealed he has latent autoimmune diabetes of adults (LADA), also called type 1.5 diabetes. The condition shares symptoms with both type 1 and type 2 diabetes. Eventually, people ...