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Emergency department physicians rarely adjust antimicrobial medication doses for obese patients, according to new research. 

Gastric electrical stimulation is a reasonable alternative to insulin and oral hypoglycemic agents in obese Type 2 diabetics who are poorly controlled by oral agents and who are not candidates for gastric bypass surgery.

Resveratrol, a molecule found in red grapes, has been shown to improve diabetes when delivered orally. Until now, however, little has been known about how these beneficial changes are mediated in the body.

Moderate daily alcohol intake (1-3 drinks per day) is linked to a reduced risk for incident diabetes and to lower insulin secretion in patients assigned to metformin or lifestyle modification for diabetes prevention, according to the results of a new study.

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital investigators have discovered how destructive immune cells gain access to insulin-producing cells and help cause diabetes.

Reducing carbohydrate consumption to control high blood glucose in people with diabetes reduces the risk for macrovascular and microvascular complications, according to Richard Feinman, PhD, from the Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York. 

True diabetes prevention lies not in maintaining a pre-diabetes state but rather in moving from prediabetes to normal glucose regulation, Dr. Leigh Perreault from the University of Colorado in Aurora and colleagues say. 

The rate of postpartum diabetes screening is low, according to the results of a retrospective cohort study.

Some women who test negative for gestational diabetes on glucose challenge and glucose tolerance tests are still at significant risk of developing Type 2 diabetes and hypertension 15 years later. 

Very young children who gain more weight, relative to their height, than their peers have more metabolic risk factors at 4 years of age, according to study findings.