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Diabetes News From Medical News Today
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Latest Health News and Medical News posted throughout the day, every day.
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CHMP Meets To Discuss Avandia And Pandemrix, Europe
The Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) met on Wednesday 8 September to discuss the ongoing benefit-risk review of the rosiglitazone-containing medicines Avandia, Avandamet and Avaglim...
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Insulin Implicated In Cell Survival, Cell Metabolism And Stress Response
Researchers at the Buck Institute for Age Research have discovered a novel way in which insulin affects cell metabolism and cell survival. Surprisingly the insulin signaling pathway, which is involved in aging, diabetes and stress response, is active at a deeper level of cell activity than scientists expected. The study appears in the September 8th issue of Cell Metabolism...
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Risk Of Gestational Diabetes, Cesarean Section, Reduced In The Obese By Bariatric Operations
Obese women who have bariatric surgical procedures before pregnancy were three times less likely to develop gestational diabetes (GDM) than women who have bariatric operations after delivery, according to new research findings published in the August issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons...
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Survey Data Reveals Shocking 'Insulin Pump Postcode Lottery'
A comprehensive new survey of all 152 PCTs undertaken and published by the Medical Technology Group (MTG), backed by national diabetes support groups INPUT, the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF), clinicians and leading cross-party MPs, has exposed major inequities in care for patients with diabetes across the country...
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AHRQ Releases New Spanish Language Guides For Patients
HHS' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality today released a series of free evidence-based guides designed to help Spanish speakers understand and compare the risks, benefits and side effects of treatments for eight health conditions. The guides provide valuable information that patients can use in talking with their clinicians...
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