War on Poverty: The Diabetes epidemic
Megan Ogilvie
Canadian diabetes experts are stunned after a major North American study found driving blood-sugar levels below current guidelines appears to increase the risk of dying from heart attack ...
Diabetes hits close to home
Adam Gutteridge
Adam Gutteridge, the Star's special sections editor, produced a video about his son Finn, 7, and his search for relief from the spirit-sapping daily grind of testing his blood and giving himself insulin injections.
Adam Gutteridge
Adam Gutteridge, the Star's special sections editor, produced a video about his son Finn, 7, and his search for relief from the spirit-sapping daily grind of testing his blood and giving himself insulin injections.
Diabetic girls skip insulin to lose weight
Trish Crawford
Many young women with Type 1 diabetes know that when they skip their insulin, they lose weight.
Trish Crawford
Many young women with Type 1 diabetes know that when they skip their insulin, they lose weight.
Too poor to avert diabetes
Tanya Talaga
If it's not easy for a retired university professor with diabetes to eat right, imagine how difficult it is for the poor.
Tanya Talaga
If it's not easy for a retired university professor with diabetes to eat right, imagine how difficult it is for the poor.
Living with diabetes
Manfred Nothlich, 51, deals with the loss of a limb due to complications from diabetes. Watch the audio slideshow.
Map: Diabetes rates in T.O.
Toronto has the highest urban rate of diabetes in Ontario - and a new study has found the poorest, most underserviced neighbourhoods have the highest rates. View our interactive map.
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Once considered a disease of middle age, a diabetes 'epidemic'
is sweeping Ontario, afflicting people of all age groups
and costing the health-care system billions.
Diabetes leaves a crippling legacy
Rita Daly
Amputation is just one complication of a disease threatening to overwhelm the health-care system.
What determines Junior's DNA?
Megan Ogilvie
Environmental stressors can put babies at higher risk of diseases such as diabetes, research shows.
Experts join worldwide effort to curb disease's rise
Megan Ogilvie
With diabetes sweeping the globe and rates of disease soaring to unprecedented levels, the world's top diabetes experts have banded together to tackle the mounting epidemic.
Diabetes epidemic spurs probe
Joseph Hall
In 1999, Ottawa announced the creation of its national diabetes strategy to help tackle what was widely seen as an emerging epidemic of the disease across Canada.
Diabetes treatment occupies province
Joseph Hall
Stopping the soaring obesity rate behind a worsening diabetes epidemic in this province may take a social engineering effort on the scale of anti-smoking campaigns that cracked the tobacco habit for millions, experts ...
Diabetes: A silent killer
Joseph Hall
Diabetes is soaring because obesity is. But how to change North America's most entrenched lifestyles?
Provincial action urged on diabetes
Kerry Gillespie
The province must take steps to fix the design of suburban neighbourhoods and improve the lives of the low-income people who live there to combat problems like diabetes, Opposition Leader John Tory says.
Chasing their dreams
Peter Krivel
To what level of strenuous exercise can someone with Type 1 diabetes aspire? To hear Sebastien Sasseville or Chris Jarvis tell it, the sky's the limit.
Exercise helped with his diabetes, and his career
Donna Jean MacKinnon
Former broadcaster and TV anchor Terry Glecoff believes his diabetes was ignited in 1977 by the breakup of his first marriage.
Type 1, a family affair
Emily Mathieu
Carly, 13, and Jeremy Tal, 11, share an uncommon bond. The siblings, part of a pack including little brothers Ari, 8 and Jonah, 5, both have type 1 diabetes.
Type 1: The OTHER Diabetes
Emily Mathieu
Rachelle Denny is a 27-year-old student taking a double major in English and Political Science at the University of Toronto. She was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes at age five.
Rita Daly
Amputation is just one complication of a disease threatening to overwhelm the health-care system.
What determines Junior's DNA?
Megan Ogilvie
Environmental stressors can put babies at higher risk of diseases such as diabetes, research shows.
Experts join worldwide effort to curb disease's rise
Megan Ogilvie
With diabetes sweeping the globe and rates of disease soaring to unprecedented levels, the world's top diabetes experts have banded together to tackle the mounting epidemic.
Diabetes epidemic spurs probe
Joseph Hall
In 1999, Ottawa announced the creation of its national diabetes strategy to help tackle what was widely seen as an emerging epidemic of the disease across Canada.
Diabetes treatment occupies province
Joseph Hall
Stopping the soaring obesity rate behind a worsening diabetes epidemic in this province may take a social engineering effort on the scale of anti-smoking campaigns that cracked the tobacco habit for millions, experts ...
Diabetes: A silent killer
Joseph Hall
Diabetes is soaring because obesity is. But how to change North America's most entrenched lifestyles?
Provincial action urged on diabetes
Kerry Gillespie
The province must take steps to fix the design of suburban neighbourhoods and improve the lives of the low-income people who live there to combat problems like diabetes, Opposition Leader John Tory says.
Chasing their dreams
Peter Krivel
To what level of strenuous exercise can someone with Type 1 diabetes aspire? To hear Sebastien Sasseville or Chris Jarvis tell it, the sky's the limit.
Exercise helped with his diabetes, and his career
Donna Jean MacKinnon
Former broadcaster and TV anchor Terry Glecoff believes his diabetes was ignited in 1977 by the breakup of his first marriage.
Type 1, a family affair
Emily Mathieu
Carly, 13, and Jeremy Tal, 11, share an uncommon bond. The siblings, part of a pack including little brothers Ari, 8 and Jonah, 5, both have type 1 diabetes.
Type 1: The OTHER Diabetes
Emily Mathieu
Rachelle Denny is a 27-year-old student taking a double major in English and Political Science at the University of Toronto. She was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes at age five.
Views on the disease
- Letter: Playing blame game won't cure diabetes
- Letter: Prevention begins in the produce section
- Letter: Reward diabetics for controlling disease
- Letter: Identifying diabetics is key
- Letter: Complex carbs may be better for South Asians
- Letter: Silent killer stalks unsuspecting women
- Editorial: Block this epidemic
- A guide to the disease
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