A study of approximately 200,000 blood samples from the UK Biobank has identified more than 2,000 undiagnosed cases of type 2 diabetes, according to a study presented at this year's Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD).

Researchers at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), Madrid, Spain, have shown how immune system cells, macrophages, have a key role in the regulation of obesity and the findings could be useful in the development of new treatments for people with obesi