A a new study from University of Chicago Medicine researchers shows that a lack of rest can also affect fat cells—making them 30 percent less responsive to insulin.
According to a new research, just a spoonful of sugar can make your willpower go up.
Insulin is then needed to move sugar throughout your body. It helps carry sugar into your cells. When you are eating a lot of sugar and carbohydrate foods your insulin level has to go up to meet this demand.
A device called IBG Star is one of a handful of new meters connected to smartphones.
What are the best choices that parents can make when it comes to controlling glucose levels in a child with diabetes?
Aspirin resistance – a concern among patients with type 2 diabetes who may be at high risk of heart disease – may be attenuated by aggressive glucose-lowering therapy, researchers said here.
Work by Michigan Technological University biologist Xiaoqing Tang is yielding new insights into how a tiny snippet of genetic material can promote healthy insulin production in mice.
Roche Diagnostics says that its ACCU-CHEK Combo insulin pump system is now available in the US market. The system uses Bluetooth wireless technology to allow a glucose meter/insulin pump combination exchange data.
An international research study now suggests that someday, taking oral insulin could delay the onset or even prevent the development of type 1 diabetes for some people.
I’ve been using a Dexcom for the last five years, and I’m absolutely thrilled to see that the new Dexcom G4 Platinum sensor has been APPROVED by the FDA.
Sanofi India, on Tuesday, announced the launch of AllStar, its first indigenously-manufactured reusable insulin pen.
Lantus and Levemir have a lot in common. Both are basal insulin formulas, which means that they last for a long time in the body and act as background insulin, with a slow feed that mimics constant low output of insulin.
I still hear from quite a few patients who say they don’t carry their insulin with them because they believe it must be refrigerated. To refrigerate or not?
Q: How do I lower my blood sugar when it goes over 200 mg/dl? I have Type 2 diabetes.
Palo Alto, California-based Glooko, which offers an app and a cable that connects various blood glucose meters to the iPhone, announced an updated version of the Glooko Logbook app and support for an additional six blood glucose meters.
For patients with impaired glucose tolerance or early diabetes, use of insulin glargine (Lantus) was the best predictor of maintaining a lower hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) level over 5 years, according to a subanalysis of the ORIGIN trial.
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Unless you take insulin you probably never think about the different types and most people who take it don’t know that there is more than one concentration.
Do you struggle with low blood glucose levels? What do you do to prevent them and get them back up? Let’s look at what some experts suggest.
The fact is, about 75% of the time, you’re going to sleep through a nocturnal low rather than waking up. Surprising, huh? Most of us probably think that if we don’t wake up, we didn’t go low.