Diabetes is increasingly affecting children, making early recognition crucial for proper treatment and lifelong health. While both type 1 and type 2 diabetes involve issues with blood sugar regulation ...

It can often seem like kids—and everyone around them, by association—are constantly sick. As frustrating and difficult as that can be, coughing, snotty noses, fevers, and weird rashes typically pass ...

Diabetes affects 37 million people in the U.S. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates another 96 million people – or 1 in 3 adults – have prediabetes, a condition where blood sugar ...

Once known as “juvenile” diabetes, type 1 diabetes was long considered a childhood disease. Although the condition is often diagnosed in children and teenagers, it can develop at any age. Type 1 ...

When I was twenty-two years old, I got a stomach virus over Thanksgiving break. Unsurprisingly, I lost a few pounds. As soon as Thanksgiving break was over, I jumped right back into my grad school and ...

Illness and stress hormones can cause your blood sugar to swing unpredictably, sometimes leading to dangerously high or low levels that can complicate your type 1 diabetes management. It’s important ...