Diabetes may take many forms, but, broadly speaking, falls into two main groups. The first type of diabetes is more striking, but less common, than the second. It often leads to diabetic coma if untreated. A sixteen-year-old schoolgirl started to complain of fatigue and loss of energy, and her parents noticed that she seemed to [...]

Diabetes is a chronic condition in which there is too much sugar (glucose) in the blood. Keeping the sugar level normal in the blood needs the right amount of a hormone called insulin. Insulin gets the sugar out of the blood and into the body’s muscles where it is used to provide energy for the [...]