Medically reviewed by Danielle Weiss, MD Diagnosing type 2 diabetes requires a series of lab tests looking for markers of ...

Once reserved for people with diabetes, blood sugar monitors are now available over-the-counter. Two doctors explain what ...

The first is the glucose challenge test, a one-hour screening in which women have blood sugar checked after drinking a sweet ...

The A1C test is also known as the glycated hemoglobin test. It measures how much glucose has attached itself to the hemaglobin (a protein) on your red blood cells. A1C test measures your average ...

This is especially true for glucose test trips, the little electrochemical dongles that plug into a meter and read the amount of glucose in a single drop of blood. As you might expect, glucose ...