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Recently, the United States Food and Drug Administration granted approval for Tzield (teplizumab-mzwv) injection: a groundbreaking treatment intended to obstruct the progression of stage 2 type 1 diabetes into its more serious form in adults as well as pediatric patients who are 8 years or older. John Sharretts, M.D., director …

Mexican American adults receiving insulin less likely than non-Hispanic Whites to achieve glycemic control

When clinical symptoms and signs of hypothyroidism are present, TSH, free thyroxine should be measured, regardless of screening results

Hazard of incident diabetes reduced by 44 percent in adjusted models comparing average daily step count of 10,700 to 6,000

Experts recommend agency leaders set clear objectives and expectations to prevent more 'detrimental’ effects on the agency's work and staff morale

Reduced risk seen for total knee replacement and total hip replacement with metformin use

Prevalence of obesity with type 2 diabetes highest in White children and lowest in Asian children

Highest risk for thyroid cancer seen among participants with both high genetic risk and unfavorable lifestyle

Extended method uses additional data from 1999 to 2016 NHANES, rather than extrapolation; improves characterization of extremely high BMI in children

44.4 percent of adults with T2D randomly assigned to Chinese Medical Nutrition Therapy had sustained remission after 12 months