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Like tens of thousands of Massachusetts residents, community college professor Carolyn McGrath has been paying for medicine ...

Summer's heat poses unique challenges for individuals with diabetes, impacting blood sugar control and insulin effectiveness.

Then you place a drop of blood on a test strip in the glucometer to get a blood sugar reading. Generally, blood sugar should be checked before meals and at bedtime. Your healthcare provider may want ...

After viewing the security tape - which showed Gonzalez stealing nicotine products, gum, diabetic test strips and other 'high-priced items' - police waited for him to return 10 days later and ...

Urophagia, also known as urine therapy, is the practice of drinking urine. Here’s why the social media health trend is ...

Diabetes is one of the most common chronic diseases affecting people living in Canada. It occurs when the body doesn't produce enough insulin or can't use the insulin it produces. Diabetes can lead to ...

Letby poisoned two of the babies with insulin. They said the test, called “the Roche immunoassay,” was known to result in “falsely high insulin results.” They also argued that there were ...

A urine glucose test is a quick way to check for high glucose levels. Too much glucose in the urine can signal a health problem, and long-term high glucose levels can ultimately lead to serious ...

Compare the test strip to the results chart. Blood ketone testers are also available. These are usually combination devices that can measure both glucose levels and ketone levels. Similar to blood ...

The relatively small trial enrolled 41 patients with diabetic foot osteomyelitis (DFO), a painful bone infection, which was associated with the bacteria Staphylococcus aureus. Twenty-six of these ...