Patients in New Zealand have become the first in the world to receive an experimental treatment for type 2 diabetes.

Being fat is a disability, EU judges have ruled, meaning that European companies must offer obese staff bigger chairs, special parking spaces and a lighter workload.

Matt Chamberlain, and Cameron Jones will join the 1600 entrants in the popular 2.9km Auckland Harbour crossing.

A cure for diabetes is a step closer after scientists found what they believe is the root cause of the disease.

When Vicki Parry's highly trained Siberian husky nudges forcefully into her leg, she knows it's time to do a diabetes test of her blood-sugar level.

A couch potato lifestyle is linked to a significantly greater risk of certain cancers as well as heart disease and diabetes, research has shown.

Colombia's most obese baby - who weighs the same as a six-year-old child - has been "rescued" by a charity so he can undergo life-saving treatment.

Plant compounds in herbs, berries and red wine may protect against diabetes, say scientists.

A meat-based diet containing too much acid increases diabetes risk, research has shown.

Mark Sainsbury has spent decades in the limelight, but has always kept his twin children out of it ... until now.

Red and processed meats that have been linked with heart disease and cancer may be a major factor with another disease that's epidemic - type 2 diabetes.

As Canvas’ agony aunts, Denise L’Estrange-Corbet and Pebbles Hooper have been giving advice for years. But privately they have been battling their own demons, they tell Suzanne McFadden.

Pacific health experts are calling for a quota on the amount of fatty food exported to the Pacific Islands, where heart disease, diabetes and obesity are the norm.

Eating walnuts just two or three times a week can reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes by almost a quarter, according to new research.

Discarded fish eyes are being used by a Kiwi scientist to help early detection of diseases like diabetes and cancer.

A diabetic who was fired for miscounting limes and grapefruit and falling asleep on his forklift died two months before he was awarded $12,000 for unfair dismissal.

An unconscious 61-year-old diabetic man was believed to have been lying on a Dunedin park bench for a day and a night before he died.

Overweight people have surprisingly beaten out your normal Joe Average on the mortality scale, a statistical survey of medical studies has shown.

The Government is more interested in Prince Charles' visit than in finding ways to combat the "major epidemic" of diabetes, nutrition and diabetes expert Prof Jim Mann says.

Newborns and unborn babies in later pregnancy have been dying in South Auckland at a higher rate than the national average for most of the past decade.