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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.

There is no cure for type 1 diabetes in children, but it can be managed. And so, there is a need to know the signs of when the condition begins in the early stages for proper management and ...

Type 1 diabetes is becoming a lot more common in general: From 2001 to 2017, the number of people under age 20 diagnosed with type 1 diabetes jumped by 45%. 1 Researchers aren’t exactly sure why ...

For the past century, the only approved treatment for U.S. patients with type 1 diabetes had been insulin injections. Teplizumab, an immunotherapy drug, was approved by the FDA in 2022 thanks to a ...

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People with type 1 diabetes must take insulin injections or use an insulin pump to control blood sugar levels. Type 1 diabetes usually starts in children or young adults, but it can happen at any age.

Type 1 diabetes primarily affects kids—in fact, the condition used to be called juvenile diabetes—and every 35 in 10,000 people under the age of 20 have it, according to the Centers for ...

More children should be screened for Type 1 diabetes. That’s the message from an international team led by University of Florida Health physician-scientist Dr. Michael Haller.