SaveHealth reports that insulin therapy is crucial for diabetes management, with various options available, including rapid- and long-acting insulins.

When you eat sugar, your pancreas releases insulin — the digestive hormone that scuttles sugar into your cells to keep your blood sugar levels stable. Insulin helps prevent dangerously high blood ...

For most healthy women, optimal fasting insulin levels should be less than 25 mIU/L (milli-international units per liter), ...

If you’re on insulin to treat type 1 or type 2 diabetes, it’s critical to know exactly how to use it. “Insulin can be a very dangerous drug if used improperly,” says Stanley Mathew, MD, an ...

Obesity and type 2 diabetes are complex metabolic disorders linked to insulin resistance in skeletal muscle. Weight loss, a fundamental treatment for these conditions, has been shown to improve ...