A young adult in rural Bangladesh receives a diabetes diagnosis, but the textbook treatment plan makes no sense. They are not overweight. They show no signs of the autoimmune attack that defines type ...

This month, in April, the International Diabetes Federation formally recognized a new, distinct form of the disease: type 5 diabetes. Roughly 25 million people worldwide live with this condition, ...

Malnutrition can cause its own form of diabetes, health experts said Thursday, calling for "type 5 diabetes" to be recognised globally to help fight the disease in countries already struggling with ...

In the early 1950s, British physician Philip Hugh-Jones was flummoxed by 13 patients who showed up at the diabetes clinic he ran near Kingston, Jamaica. At the time, researchers broadly recognized two ...

Malnutrition can cause its own form of diabetes, health experts said Thursday, calling for "type 5 diabetes" to be recognised globally to help fight the disease in countries already struggling with ...