Dr. Omar Al-Heeti is an assistant professor of medicine at Southern Illinois University and practices internal medicine with a specialty in infectious diseases. He received his medical degree from the ...

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 ...

A new type of blood test using lipids could make it easier to identify children at risk of complications around obesity including type two diabetes, liver and heart disease, say scientists. A new ...

Available at-home A1C test kits require users to send blood samples from finger pricks to a lab and wait for results. These types of at-home testing methods are thought to be less accurate than ...