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Drug-eluting stents reduced the risk of revascularization, heart attack and death in diabetics as compared with bare-metal stents in the largest observational comparison, researchers reported at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2008. The results from The Drug-eluting and Bare Metal Stenting in patients with diabetes Mellitus: Results from the Mass-DAC Registry, were presented as a late-breaking clinical trial.

Type 2 diabetics treated with low-dose aspirin did not have a significantly lower incidence of atherosclerotic events than those who received placebo in this primary prevention trial of low-dose aspirin, according to research presented at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2008.

Type 2 diabetes is on the rise both in our country and worldwide and it no longer just affects older overweight people: children and adolescents are now being diagnosed with it. The key risk factors over which we have control are being overweight and leading an unhealthy lifestyle. Getting our little ones into good habits early on is the best way to prevent Type 2 diabetes and also heart disease.

QUT researchers are developing a simple eye test to help save the lives and limbs of diabetics from a debiliting condition that affects up to half of people with diabetes. Professor Nathan Efron is using a breakthrough technique to develop the use of an optical instrument capable of looking at the cornea - the clear window at the front of the eye - under high magnification to assess a painful nerve condition known as diabetic neuropathy.

Patients with type 2 diabetes face many challenges, including blood sugar monitoring, maintaining a healthy diet and transitioning to new therapies. Novo Nordisk , the world's largest maker of insulin, is committed to helping new patients make the move to insulin.

A successful diabetes UK African and Caribbean Healthy Living Day was held on 29 October at Churchend and Roundwood Unity Centre, Harlesden. 80 people attended and 20 people received a diabetes test. The Mayor of Brent, Councillor Ralph Fox, opened the event. The event took place as part of Black History month, a celebration of Black history and culture, and was a great opportunity for people in the area to find out more about diabetes and its complications.

Diabetes UK is calling on all enthusiastic swimmers to take part in a fundraising relay race across the English Channel in 2009. Last August, two teams of six spirited swimmers tackled the English Channel in a relay race and raised £20,000 for diabetes UK. The swimmers took it in turns to swim for an hour between Dover and Cap Gris Nez in France, taking an average of 15 hours all together.

Researchers at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh claim to have discovered that a simple system of heart monitoring combined with preventative medicine could save thousands of lives across the UK. Foot ulcers are known to be associated with heart disease and the experts realised that the appearance of a foot ulcer pointed to arterial damage elsewhere in the body.

HHS announced an exciting collaboration with the American diabetes Association (ADA) and the Patient Education Research Center at the Stanford University School of medicine to increase the number of diabetes self-management training programs (DSMT) in the United States. This collaboration has a particular focus on Hispanic people with Medicare and supports HHS' Interagency Hispanic Elder Initiative.

The Endocrine Society has released a new clinical practice guideline for the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes in patients at metabolic risk. The guideline appears in the October issue of the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM), a publication of The Endocrine Society. There is growing evidence that many patients who develop cardiovascular disease or diabetes have a pre-existing metabolic risk.