If you have type 1 diabetes—and in some cases if you have type 2 diabetes—intensive insulin therapy may improve your long-term health. Insulin therapy can take some work, but the benefits are real.

Intensive insulin therapy reduces morbidity and mortality in patients in surgical intensive care units (ICUs), but its role in patients in medical ICUs is unknown. In a prospective, randomized, ...

Respiratory and heart problems are the top reasons children are admitted to pediatric intensive care units (PICUs) in the U.S. (Photo Credit: Monkey Business Images/Dreamstime) What is the PICU? The ...

Intensive parenting involves deep involvement in children's lives, often at the cost of parents' well-being. While it can strengthen the parent-child bond and enhance development, it risks causing ...

Intensive parenting—the dominant model of modern American child-rearing—is a bit like smoking: The evidence shows that it’s unhealthy, yet the addiction can be hard to kick. I’d like to suggest ...

Intensive glucose control doesn't reduce mortality risk in critically ill patients when compared with conventional glucose control. Instead, it increases the risk for severe hypoglycemia by threefold, ...

Intensive diabetes management is a term to describe treatment therapies which aim to achieve lower average blood glucose results. Tighter blood glucose control is widely believed to reduce the risk of ...

We randomly assigned 11,140 patients with type 2 diabetes to undergo either standard glucose control or intensive glucose control, defined as the use of gliclazide (modified release) plus other drugs ...