Home blood sugar testing has become efficient and nearly painless with the use of modern devices. Regular monitoring, guided by physicians, helps mana ...

Insert a test strip into your meter. Prick the side of your fingertip with a small needle called a lancet. Place the edge of the test strip onto the drop of blood. Wait a few seconds. Your blood sugar ...

Diabetes and Endocrinology offers one of the most extensive global evaluations of diabetes care, analyzing trends spanning from 2000 to 2023.

Continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) are wearable technologies that track blood sugar in real time and help patients with type 2 diabetes improve blood sugar control. In 2024, the U.S. Food and Drug ...

Blood draws for several kinds of diagnostic tests require you to fast for several hours. Eating or drinking anything besides water can skew the results, leading to you needing to be retested. You may ...

Learn about type 5 diabetes, a newly recognized but long-known form linked to malnutrition, and how it differs from type 1 and type 2 diabetes.

Can you escape your genetic inheritance, and do lifestyle changes actually make a difference? Daniel Cossins set out to understand what the evidence on Alzheimer’s really means for him ...

Before modern blood tests, doctors had to rely on color-changing chemical reactions to diagnose diabetes. In this experiment, I recreate the original method using safe ingredients to show how sugar ...

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