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During a recent phone follow-up call to one of my patients a co-worker and I avoided a “Diabetes Disaster.” My patient told me that she had received her mail order refill for “ASPART” but the bottle didn’t look the same and she didn’t understand how to “dilute” it. I asked her to read the label to me. She had to spell it out.
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Evidence to help determine proper treatment in youth with obesity and type 2 diabetes.
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Exclusive insights from Dr. Ruth Loos on the new research on how genes contribute to body-fat distribution, which has identified 24 new genetic variants involved in determining where fat is stored, and how examining the links between fat distribution and diseases like diabetes may someday aid in developing new treatments.
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Automatic information processing studied to help find diabetic retinopathy on a larger scale.
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This past week I was in our corporate offices and one of our District Managers came up to me and said he had developed type 1 diabetes. Although he is 42 years old, his physician had told him that his pancreas had quit working. His first indication was a loss …
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