The FDA recently approved the use of the Nova StatStrip Glucose Hospital Meter System-which quickly monitors blood sugar for all hospitalized patients, including those who are critically ill. Accurate monitoring and blood glucose control are important for all hospital patients to reduce...
New apps share glucose levels. The FDA recently approved the first set of mobile medical apps that allow people with diabetes to...
There's a dangerous epidemic out there. It's called overdiagnosis-when you are diagnosed with a condition that will never...
You might assume that you will get better care when you spend extra time and extra money to see a medical specialist....
Medical ID jewelry has evolved. Those simple and basic necklaces and ID bracelets that people used to wear to alert others to...
Recently, an employee at Bottom Line Publications was scheduled for a colonoscopy, the screening test for colon cancer. The medical test turned...
Insulin resistance will increase your risk of getting diabetes. You might not even know you’re insulin resistant. It’s a condition...
Bringing blood sugar down with diabetes drugs might be too simple an approach and, worse, ineffective and even harmful for some of...
In the US, there are about 30 million people who have diabetes, and around 60 million people have prediabetes. And the numbers...
Chances are you know one or more people who have type 2 diabetes, or perhaps you have been diagnosed with the condition...
Some diabetics may be better off not starting insulin, according to Sandeep Vijan, MD. For adults over age 50 who have type...
Despite what you may have heard, type 2 diabetes doesn't have to be a lifelong condition. It can be controlled...