The primary factor behind diabetes is that your body may not make enough insulin (type 1 diabetes) or it fails to respond to the insulin your pancreas releases, which is known as insulin resistance ...

Some people need insulin only temporarily — for example, during infections, after surgery, or when glucose levels are ...

This article is authored by Dr Jaideep Gogtay, Global Chief Medical Officer, Cipla Ltd.

A century ago, type 1 diabetes was a death sentence. Children diagnosed rarely survived more than a year or two, wasting away as their bodies starved despite food. Then, in 1921, in a modest lab in ...