MCG.edu - A powerful antioxidant in green tea - EGCG - may prevent or delay the onset of type 1 diabetes by reducing a destructive autoimmune disease process, Medical College of Georgia researchers say.
Researchers were testing EGCG, green tea’s predominant antioxidant, in a laboratory mouse with type 1 diabetes and primary Sjogren’s syndrome, which damages [...]

UTSouthwestern.edu - Terminally ill rodents with type 1 diabetes have been restored to full health with a single injection of leptin by scientists at UT Southwestern Medical Center.
Since the discovery of insulin in 1922, type 1 diabetes (insulin-dependent diabetes) in humans has been treated by injecting insulin to lower high blood sugar levels and prevent [...]

Diabetes before motherhood more than doubled in six years among teenage and adult women, according to a Kaiser Permanente study published in the May issue of Diabetes Care. http://care.diabetesjournals.org/