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Doctors have found a way around a major obstacle in the effort to perfect transplants of islet cells. Only one pancreas needed for transplant of islet cells, rather then two or three.

Identifying the 41 million Americans thought to have pre-diabetes and another 5 million with undiagnosed diabetes; the vast majority, type 2 and encouraging them to improve their health.

Could be the first over the counter drug that the FDA has ever approved for weight loss.

Patients with PCOS need to be evaluated for liver disease and those with elevated ALT avoid alcohol and acetaminophen. Liver disease is often silent and often isn’t discovered until it reaches advanced levels.

The presence of HSV-1 infection raised the risk of type 2 diabetes by 50 percent.

The clinical effectiveness of combination therapy warrants its application to diabetic kidney disease and may contribute to amelioration of the prognosis of the disease.

More than 195,000 avoidable deaths occur in the United States each year and that one out of every eight American adults will experience at least one medical error in their life.

Treating diabetic patients with ACE inhibitors before they develop hypertension could prevent cardiovascular complications.

New research indicates that most children about to begin long-term dialysis have hypertension and that the prevalence does not decrease much during follow-up.