Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) is a complication of diabetes. It can occur when the body does not have enough insulin to use sugar as energy. Instead, it breaks down fat and produces ketones. This can ...

Ketosis and ketoacidosis may sound similar, but ketosis is a fat-burning metabolic state, while diabetic ketoacidosis is a life-threatening complication of diabetes. Ketones in the body trigger both ...

Rigor mortis had set in, and her body was stiff, indicating [the girl] had been dead for several hours in the back seat of ...

Recent studies have shown improved renal outcomes in adult patients with sepsis receiving balanced solutions instead of "normal" saline. For years, it has been known that 0.9% saline (colloquially ...

In Germany, rates of diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) seen at time of type 1 diabetes (T1D) diagnosis were stable throughout the past 2 decades. Between 2000 and 2019, frequency of diabetic ketoacidosis ...

A diabetic 10-year-old girl slipped into a coma during a trip with her family and was brought to the hospital after she had ...

Once known as “juvenile” diabetes, type 1 diabetes was long considered a childhood disease. Although the condition is often diagnosed in children and teenagers, it can develop at any age. Type 1 ...

Police in Washington state said they began investigating the death after the child's mother brought her to a hospital in ...