A few new diabetes related news items I spotted.

This first one talks about vitamin supplements, look here, and suggest that low levels of vitamin B may be a factor in the complications that can result from diabetes. Apparantly diabetics have alow level of thiamin in their blood. The same thing is also covered here

The second article, here, talks about bones. Professor Karsenty said: "The discovery that our bones are responsible for regulating blood sugar in ways that were not known before completely changes out understanding of the function of the skeleton and uncovers a crucial aspect of energy metabolism. You need to read it.