Eight outstanding schools from across Uganda are already gearing up for the grand finale of the Stanbic National Schools Championship (NSC) 2025, known as the "Battle of Champions," which is set for ...

Generally speaking, when someone has Type 1 diabetes, their blood contains a marker – called islet autoantibodies – that ...

However, a new study published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology examined 894 volunteers with diabetes in Cameroon, ...

A new discovery could change how type 1 diabetes is diagnosed and managed in individuals of African descent, researchers say.

Research reveals a unique form of type 1 diabetes among African populations, characterized by absent autoantibodies and low genetic risk, challenging existing diagnostic and treatment norms. In ...

GLP-1s - which mimic the effects of the hormone that stimulates insulin release, suppressing glucagon, and slowing gastric ...

An international team of researchers has made a key discovery: many children and young adults in Sub-Saharan Africa diagnosed with type 1 diabetes (T1D) may have a different form of the disease—one ...

Later that day, a quieter ePoster session titled Obesity-Associated Diabetes and Cancer Risk offered a chilling insight: Type 2 diabetes is tied not only to heart disease, but also to several cancers, ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The United States has sent five men to the small African nation of Eswatini in an expansion of the Trump administration’s third-country deportation program, the U.S.

Saharan Africa will reach a grim milestone. For the first time, non-communicable diseases will become the leading cause of ...

Agyepong, Chair of the Faculty of Public Health at the Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons (GCPS) and Co-Director of the STOP NCD Research Centre. Speaking at the pivotal meeting, Professor Irene ...

Mattel has launched its first Barbie doll with Type 1 diabetes, the company announced on Tuesday, July 8. The new doll wears a continuous glucose monitor (CGM) on her arm, secured with heart-shaped ...