Diabetes

New research links the disposition to lower blood glucose levels.

• By Tom Jacobs

The reality of a life with diabetes is much more than a matter of malfunctioning bodily organs.

• By Daniel Solomon

The scientific evidence for whether eating too much sugar causes Type 2 diabetes and other diseases.

• By Francie Diep

Key parallels and important distinctions.

• By Francie Diep

University of California–San Francisco researcher Cristin Kearns dropped a promising career at the Kaiser Foundation to dig through sugar industry archives for a smoking gun. With help from the man who brought down Big Tobacco, she’s now proving that Big Sugar steered scientists away from looking at the ingredient’s harmful effects.

• By Francie Diep

An early look at a Pacific Standard story that's currently only available to subscribers.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

A morning buzz does the body good.

• By Madeleine Thomas

The morality of human embryonic stem cell research has long been contentious, but new discoveries could end the controversy.

• By Michael White

Type 1 diabetes management is hard work, and any misstep could spell disaster. New advances in Big Data could ease the burden.

• By Jackie Roche

Inside the promising marriage between data and health care: How health quantification could alleviate Parkinson's symptoms and improve the lives of Type 1 diabetics.

• By Jackie Roche

It's becoming easier to track health data for our own casual use. But for some people—like Ph.D student Maria Qadri, a Type 1 diabetic—it could have a huge impact on quality of life.

• By Jackie Roche

New data shows that the incidence of Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes is growing among young Americans. But the rise of Type 1 remains mostly a mystery.

• By John Upton

In an experiment, scientists found a correlation between low blood glucose and higher levels of spousal frustration.

• By John Upton

Scientists are learning more about how we process feelings of gentle touch. New discoveries published Sunday could help restore fading sensations—and ease painful hypersensitivity.

• By John Upton

A newspaper in the emirates suggests breaking bad dietary habits along with the fast.

• By Marc Herman

Tiny numbers, big impacts.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

The single participant in a groundbreaking—and controversial—study is forcing clinicians to confront the thorny ethical issues surrounding the sequencing of individual genomes to offer a glimpse at what the future of medicine may look like.

• By Kayt Sukel

Dr. Jay Shubrook is flipping conventional insulin treatment upside-down—with startling results.

• By Susan Salter Reynolds