Checking your blood sugar can feel like a major inconvenience—not to mention, if you’re using a finger-stick test, it can hurt, too. Yet, monitoring your glucose level is key for good diabetes ...

Type 1 diabetes is a chronic autoimmune condition in which the pancreas produces little to no insulin. “Both adult and childhood-onset type 1 diabetes are due to autoimmune destruction of cells in the ...

A large UK study suggests that screening children for type 1 diabetes using a simple finger-prick blood test could help identify the condition earlier and prevent some of the most dangerous emergency ...

Most people with diabetes should test their blood sugar (or blood glucose) levels regularly. Knowing the results lets you adjust your strategy for keeping the disease in check. Research shows that in ...

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A simple retinal photograph, read by AI, could one day replace blood tests for diabetes screening.

A local high school student is gaining national attention for his innovative work in health technology. Akshath Motkuri, has ...

Recent advances in diabetes detection may help to identify risk earlier. In this article, MNT discusses recent studies that suggest both an AI test and a blood test could help to highlight diabetes ...

Diabetes specialist nurse Anwen Jones provides an update on some key principles in management of diabetes in primary care ...

Implementing targeted diabetes testing in dental settings for high-risk patients may be a feasible and largely accepted strategy to diagnose individuals sooner. The study was recently published in the ...

People with diabetes have been urged to take extra caution during the COVID-19 pandemic. If you have diabetes, you’ve likely heard that COVID-19 is generally considered to be more dangerous for people ...