To check your blood sugar levels at home, you can use a glucose meter or a continuous glucose monitor. Here's what you should know about both devices.

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An important aspect of managing diabetes in dogs and cats is regularly checking blood sugar (glucose) to ensure levels are neither too high nor too low. In the past, we had to rely on using urine ...

A recent breakthrough study highlights how a simple at-home urine test could accurately detect prostate cancer. Researchers from Vanderbilt University and the University of Michigan suggest this ...

Testing blood ketone levels before breakfast, lunch, and dinner identified a greater number of ketosis episodes than testing urinary ketone levels in women with gestational diabetes (GD). The presence ...

In a finding set to change the way disease is monitored, Chandra Mohan, an international expert and pioneer in lupus research ...

Dear L.L.: Home blood pressure monitoring adds a great deal of information to in-office blood pressure monitoring, since it ensures that the blood pressure is being optimally controlled. A few ...