News & Research

The diabetes research landscape is rapidly evolving with new discoveries and clinical trial results reported every day. The Association is at the center of the diabetes research community, and the information on these pages will help keep you in the know by providing the most current information on diabetes research. 

Each year, the American Diabetes Association hosts the world's largest scientific meeting on diabetes, the Scientific Sessions. You can review presentations about cutting-edge research, the current treatment recommendations and advances towards stopping diabetes from the Association's Scientific Sessions.

The Associations professional journals publish the latest breakthroughs in basic and clinical diabetes research. You may be interested in the Annual Review of Diabetes which contains some of the most relevant and important research published in these scientific journals throughout the year.

Additional links and resources for information from the diabetes research community can be found below.

Diabetes Statistics

There are 25.8 million people in the United States, or 8.3% of the population, who have diabetes.

Clinical Trials

Get an overview of how and why clinical trials are conducted, as well as links to information on clinical trials being performed in patients with diabetes.

Access: Diabetes Research

Get summaries of late-breaking research from the ADA and patientINFORM