As diabetes grows more rampant and threatens to affect one in three Americans in less than four decades, it is no wonder that extensive research is being done to treat and prevent the condition. In Israel, two researchers have made significant advancement in treating type I and detecting type II diabetes.

Do you exercise at least three times a week? Does your diet consist of mostly vegetables and fruit? If not, you are part of a high-risk group for diabetes. The only way of treating diabetes today is by injecting insulin. But one Israeli startup is on its way to creating the world's first insulin pill.

Nowadays we have everything in our pockets. Our smartphone is a radio; TV; web browser; telephone and much more – so why not a doctor? LifeWatch has created an Android-based smartphone that monitors and examines your health.

Every 20 seconds, somewhere in the world, a diabetic loses a limb due to circulatory problems. An Israeli graduate of the Bezalel Art Academy has come up with a solution – a shoe for diabetics inspired by horse hoofs.

Diabetics have to constantly monitor their blood-sugar levels and carry measuring devices that, while functional, are not really attractive. Israeli-developed Dario is a smartphone attachment that does that and more – while maintaining a sleek exterior.

A study conducted at the Hebrew University found that eating carbs at dinner, while avoiding them the rest of the day, is actually beneficial for obese and diabetic people. The idea came from studies on Muslims during Ramadan, when they fast during the day and eat high-carb meals at night.

A new animal research conducted in Israel offers hope for better glucose control for diabetics. Researchers engineered pancreas tissue that can survive longer and produce more insulin than traditional transplant material.

Oramed Pharmaceuticals is in the process of developing insulin pills for the treatment of diabetes. The company is enetring a phase 2 clinical trial in the U.S and hoping to deliver the pills to the market by 2016.

Easy Check, a new device under development in Israel, could allow diabetics to measure the glucose levels in their body simply by sampling their breath. Easy Check is a non-invasive device that can indicate the patient’s glucose levels by measuring the amount of acetone in the breath.

Research carried out at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has provided the first proof of molecular risk factors leading to type 2 diabetes, providing an “early warning” sign that could lead to new approaches to treating this and other human disease conditions.

Researchers conducted a study on children with type 1 diabetes in a hotel rather than a hospital, for the first time in history. This innovation relieves the patients from the daily burden of dealing with their illness and holds the potential to significantly improve their quality of life.

A recent Israeli study confirmed that women with well-managed diabetes are not at an increased risk of giving birth to infants with RDS (respiratory distress syndrome), preterm infants, and infants with very low birth weight.

There is hope for a future cure of insulin-dependent (type 1) diabetes from Jerusalem researchers who have identified the key signal that initiates production of insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas. They call their discovery a breakthrough that could help restore or increase beta cell function in people with this type of diabetes.

Researchers at the medical departments of Ben-Gurion University and the Soroka Medical Center in Israel found that a short dip in Dead Sea waters leads to a significant decrease in the levels of sugar in the blood and could improve the medical condition of diabetics.

Israeli and American scientists have developed a drug to treat chronic wounds - those wounds that do not heal in an orderly set of stages and in a predictable amount of time the way most wounds dousing - using cutting edge Nano-Technology.