A lot of cliches going around about diabetes haven't always been confirmed. Here are 5 myths about diabetes that need to be debunked immediately: from diet to sugar consumption and insulin injections.

Connected health devices can add wellbeing to your daily habits: from monitoring your weight to measuring your temperature, from blood pressure values to glucose levels – you can save everything in real time and share it with your loved ones or with your doctor. Here are five good reasons for you to use connected devices to monitor your health and keep it up to date.

Here are some tips, as well as some practical and psychological advice for dealing with having an injection. Relaxing and massaging the injection site beforehand can make the procedure less painful.

It is an evergreen of our everyday-use pharmacopoeia. Arnica has been used for centuries to deal with small daily accidents, ranging from classic bruises to insect bites. A multifaceted remedy that derives directly from the inflorescences and other parts of a plant that looks like a simple daisy.

High blood pressure can increase the risk of cardiovascular complications. But what is the definition of arterial hypertension or high blood pressure? And above all, blood pressure monitor in hand, what is the threshold value beyond which a medical follow-up is required? In this guide, we give you some tips to feel more confident in interpreting your blood pressure monitor: numbers and practical information derived from the WHO’s guidelines.

If you have kids you’ll know well enough that sooner or later everyone falls, skins a knee or gets a small burn. With children, accidents happen almost every day. Your mantra in these cases should be “don’t panic”: fortunately, you need to worry only in rare situations. The first minutes after the event, however, can be decisive: here are some tips for you to act immediately in the best possible way.

Spend hours glued to your computer or tablet? Joint and muscle pains, and a little eyestrain are right around the corner. What can you do? Let us sort it out: here is some advice for you that could be useful to adopt a correct posture and avoid damaging your eyes.

Sports, and any form of aerobic exercise in particular, are an integral part of the treatment for diabetes mellitus. People with diabetes can even be Olympians: rowing legend Steve Redgrave, for example, has type 1 diabetes and has earned five gold medals. Therefore, don’t give up on training just because you are diabetic. Instead, educate yourself about which types of sports you should avoid and which ones are perfectly “diabetes friendly”.

The onset of diabetes is a delicate time for the little one in the family. How should you behave with your child, if he or she is diagnosed with diabetes? Diabetic children have a daily routine, just like their peers. The big difference is in how their nutrition should be managed in relation to the activities they have during the day. Here are some helpful tips on when and how to talk about it with your kids.