Diabetes Testing Strips May Give Bad Readings
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A unit of Bayer AG recalled diabetes test strips used with its Contour TS Blood Glucose Meter because they may result in 5 percent to 17 percent higher blood glucose readings, the Food and Drug Administration said. Bayer Diabetes Care said that the strips were produced on new equipment and that the company had fixed the problem. Fifty-three production lots were affected by the recall, totaling 230,000 bottles of strips, a Bayer spokeswoman said. Details about the stripsâ product code and lot numbers were posted on the Food and Drug Administrationâs Web site, www.fda.gov/oc/po/firmrecalls/bayer12_07.html.
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NEW YORK  - For preschool children with  type 1 diabetes, twice-daily insulin injections do not  adequately control blood sugar levels, researchers report. They  found these kids had frequent and prolonged episodes of either  low or high blood sugar.
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One week after U.S. researchers announced that pushing down blood sugar levels as close as possible to normal might be dangerous for high-risk diabetes patients, a preliminary analysis of a similar international study has found no such risk.
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Diabetic 9-year-old Gabe Mathews had very low blood sugar before a test, but hours later at home his mother found it to be far too high.
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People who take selenium supplements in the hope of preventing diabetes may actually worsen their odds, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
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At least 80 percent of diabetic children in England may be vulnerable to complications such as heart disease, blindness and stroke later in life because their blood sugar levels are too high, a charity said on Wednesday.
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Do you know any kids who have diabetes? Living with the disease can mean having to prick your finger to test your blood and getting insulin shots to keep the disease from becoming even more serious.
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Katy Folven never leaves home without her insulin pen, but the busy Boston social worker sometimes forgets to track her daily doses. When that happens, she must prick one of her already-calloused fingertips to measure blood sugar. That can mean as many as 10 punctures in a day.
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Scientists say it may be possible to use a breath test to monitor blood sugar levels in people with diabetes.
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A study intended to demonstrate the safety of a diabetes treatment seems, instead, to have added to the controversy.
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NEW YORK  - Older women with diabetes or  pre-diabetes tend to have poorer mental function than those  with normal blood sugar levels, and are at greater risk of  cognitive decline over time, according to new research  findings.
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NEW YORK  - People with diabetes are prone  to develop nerve damage that causes numbness, tingling or pain  -- which may reduce awareness of skin damage and lead to  serious infections and ulcers. Now, a new drug may improve this  situation, Japanese researchers report.
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Four in five children are not achieving recommended blood sugar levels, research shows.
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NEW YORK  - In women with diabetes, increasing hemoglobin A1C levels early in pregnancy -- an indicator of poor blood sugar control -- are associated with increasing risk of poor pregnancy outcomes, according to a report in the journal Diabetes Care.
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A relatively new blood test for people with diabetes can predict their risk of developing heart disease, US researchers reported on Monday.
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NEW YORK  - Using a low-level electrical  current across the skin, the GlucoWatch Biographer device can  supply as many as three glucose measurements per hour.
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A relatively new blood test for people with diabetes can predict their risk of developing heart disease, US researchers report. Two separate studies suggest that people with both type 1 and type 2 diabetes