It may be time to add Covid-19 infection to the list of possible risk factors for developing type 2 diabetes at a young age. An observational study published Monday in JAMA Network Open found that ...

Overall, 14,000 who were diagnosed with COVID were hospitalized, and they had a threefold increase in type 2 diabetes risk, compared to the more than 22,000 who were hospitalized with other ...

The subset of patients in the study who were obese were 100 percent more likely to have a Type 2 diabetes diagnosis compared ...

There seems to be an increase of type 1 diabetes linked to COVID compared to other respiratory infections in children. Another study found an increased risk across ages but largely in kids.

Of the 353 kids that had COVID infection information, the incidence rate was 8.6 per 100 person-years (95% CI 6.2-11.7) for participants testing negative for COVID-19.

COVID-19 is linked to new diabetes cases—but long-term problems could be more severe. In addition to driving new cases of diabetes, the virus may be directly damaging the pancreas in ways that ...

Anti-vaccine advocate and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has unilaterally revoked federal recommendations for healthy children and pregnant people to get COVID-19 booster shots. The abrupt ...

The US Department of Health and Human Services, under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has recently made significant changes to how Covid-19 vaccines are approved and the groups they are ...