Ben Roberts, a 33-year-old from Fowlerville, Mich., estimates that medical bracelets and necklaces have cost him more than $1,000 since he was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at age 6. Frustrated, he ...

When Todd Walsh came in for an evaluation and management of his diabetes, his physician saw something he had never seen before: A red medical alert symbol with the word 'Diabetic,' tattooed on Walsh's ...

J. Brewer Moore has planning in his blood. He comes by it naturally, having served as Portsmouth’s city planner for 21 years. Moore sent me an email after I wrote a column , legal documents that ...

A growing number of people with a chronic disease like diabetes are choosing to get medical tattoos instead of medical alert bracelets in order for people to instantly know about their illness. She ...