Dr Oluwakemi Ashubu, a paediatrician at the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, in this interview with SADE OGUNTOLA, says children can have type 1 diabetes, and they shouldn’t be treated like ...

An elevated blood glucose level one hour after the oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) signals a critical metabolic state—even ...

Each November, we observe National Diabetes Month and engage in discussions surrounding prevention, management and the impact ...

Each November, we observe National Diabetes Month and engage in discussions surrounding prevention, management and the impact of this increasingly common autoimmune disease.

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The results of a late-stage drug trial released Thursday are raising hopes that type 1 diabetes patients with chronic kidney ...

Noticing foam in your urine once in a while isn’t always a cause for concern. It can simply indicate dehydration — when your ...

Many people have peed in a plastic cup at the doctor’s office or on a stick at home. One standard test looks for sugar in the urine to diagnose diabetes. Another flags human chorionic gonadotropin, a ...

High uric acid can lead to painful gout, kidney stones, or even kidney dysfunction. Know everything about uric acid tests and why they are crucial for health. A lot of our health problems stem from ...

At-home urine test kits are now common in Estonian pharmacies and supermarkets, but doctors warn they're often unreliable and no replacement for a lab test or doctor's visit. The COVID-19 pandemic ...

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital, and four other institutions have devised a novel method to test for prostate cancer using biomarkers ...

PredicineCARE is a urine-based NGS assay under FDA review for bladder cancer companion diagnostics, detecting genetic alterations in cancer-related genes. The test uses a capture-based method to ...