Managing Type 1 diabetes can feel like a full-time job. Drawing blood from a finger, calculating the carbohydrates in every meal and injecting insulin multiple times a day is hard enough for adults, ...

A team at Stanford Medicine has delivered something people with Type 1 diabetes have waited decades to hear: a cure in animals that does not rely on toxic chemotherapy or lifelong immune drugs. In ...

On a recent summer afternoon, Randy and Vera Tom prepared a stir-fried lunch in their Redwood City home with their “sous chef,” a 17-year-old Bichon Frise named Munchies, afoot. Randy, 70, recently ...

The Science & Technology desk gathers a weekly digest with impactful and interesting research publications and developments at Stanford. Read the latest in this week’s Research Roundup. Around 13% of ...

Dana Lewis has been a vocal proponent of the empowered patient movement and has assiduously chronicled her efforts in managing her Type 1 diabetes including building a better alarm for her continuous ...

Insulin is an indispensable medication for millions of people who suffer from diabetes, but experts are becoming concerned that we'll be unable to meet the demand for it over the coming decades. A new ...

For centuries, doctors have used their hands as essential diagnostic tools — exploring joints and palpating abdomens to assess a patient’s health. Often a cancer will reveal itself as a lump or ...

Insulin use is expected to rise 20 percent by 2030, and many people who need it for Type 2 diabetes won't have access, a study from Stanford University suggests. Globally, 511 million adults are ...

A correction to an earlier version of this article has been appended to the end of the article. On a recent summer afternoon, Randy and Vera Tom prepared a stir-fried lunch in their Redwood City home ...