All UK children could be offered screening for type 1 diabetes using a simple finger-prick blood test, say researchers who have been running a large study. Currently, many young people go undiagnosed ...

A finger-prick during a dental appointment may seem far removed from diabetes care. Yet in a new UK study, that small test picked up something many patients did not know about: blood sugar levels in ...

A noninvasive method for measuring blood glucose levels, developed at MIT, could save diabetes patients from having to prick their fingers several times a day. The MIT team used Raman spectroscopy - a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chairside HbA1c tests at dental visits identified undiagnosed pre-diabetes or diabetes in more than a third of patients. (CREDIT: ...