Most people with diabetes should test their blood sugar (or blood glucose) levels regularly. Knowing the results lets you adjust your strategy for keeping the disease in check. Research shows that in ...

Brad Reisfeld is a professor of chemical and biological engineering, biomedical engineering, and public health at Colorado State University. Your blood serves numerous roles to maintain your health.

When it comes to maintaining health, it can be helpful to understand an optimal baseline for some matters. Learning a healthy weight range for your height, age, and gender, for instance, can be useful ...

Knowing your blood type is crucial medical information, but unless you've given blood before you might not be sure what yours is. I realized this when I was asked for mine while filling out paperwork ...

Have you ever wondered if your blood type could influence the foods you should eat? That’s the idea behind the blood type diet, a nutrition theory that claims your ABO blood type (A, B, AB, or O) ...

During pregnancy, high blood glucose levels mark gestational diabetes. Gestational diabetes blood sugar goals are typically the same as those in people without the condition. After their initial blood ...

A new study suggests a simple blood test could tell who is at higher risk for rapid cognitive decline with Alzheimer's. The study found that people with higher insulin resistance were up to four times ...