Working as a police officer is stressful; so stressful, it turns out, that police officers may have a higher risk for a variety of physical and mental health problems.

Marijuana is often thought of as a drug that causes relatively little harm compared to other street drugs. But that may not be the case if you're carrying a little one to term.

The hormone insulin plays a key role in diabetes. When the body does not respond to insulin, blood sugar levels can rise, putting a person at risk for type 2 diabetes.

Study after study has shown that exercise keeps you healthy. Still, the rates of obesity and diabetes continue to grow. Once again, researchers have shown that staying active cuts diabetes risk.

In the past couple decades, China's economy has changed dramatically. At the same time, there have been similarly large changes in the dietary and exercise habits of the Chinese people, boosting diabetes and heart risks.

The plus side of fast food is in the name: it's fast. Grabbing a drive-thru hamburger may be cheap and easy, but too much fast food can be harmful.

If you're stuck without health insurance coverage, simply getting stitches at the hospital can be costly. If you have a chronic disease like diabetes, having no health insurance can make treatment nearly impossible to afford.

Avoiding complications of pregnancy can be hard, especially if diabetes is involved. But doctors have a much better chance of preventing complications if they can properly diagnose diabetes during pregnancy.

In this modern world, many of us use a wide variety of personal care products that are manufactured using chemicals that we know little about. Some of these chemicals have been linked to cancer, and now, it seems, diabetes.

Eating a high-sugar, high-calorie diet can increase your weight and boost your risk of diseases like diabetes. In turn, cutting calories from your diet can protect you from such diseases.