How Vitamin D May Affect Heart Disease, Diabetes
How Vitamin D May Affect Heart Disease, DiabetesMice with immune cells unable to use vitamin D developed precursors of heart...
Month: March 2015
Interpreting Breast Biopsies
Interpreting Breast BiopsiesPathologists asked to interpret a difficult set of breast biopsy slides accurately made most diagnoses, but the results...
Boosting Immunotherapy Against Brain Cancer
Boosting Immunotherapy Against Brain CancerResearchers used a tetanus booster to enhance the effects of an experimental immunotherapy against glioblastoma, a...
Does He Have What I Had?
A rose by any other name is still a you know what…as per Shakespeare The case of the month is...
Test Driving New Inhaled Insulin Afrezza
I have been using Afrezza, the new inhaled insulin developed by MannKind and marketed by Sanofi, for the last three...
UGA students’ winning national public policy entry addresses homeless women’s hygiene
With an innovative proposal addressing a silent public health problem for homeless women, four students from the University of Georgia...
Sunday Funnies: No Blood Sugar Joke… (Or Is It?)
April Fool's Day is just around the corner, and the Diabetes Community will have to be on the look out...
Ask D’Mine: Weathering Mail Order Diabetes Supply Services
Got questions about life with diabetes? So do we! That's why we offer our weekly diabetes advice column, Ask D'Mine,...
‘Insufficient evidence’ that natural sweetener xylitol prevents tooth decay
A new review of published studies found low-quality evidence that xylitol in toothpaste protects against cavities, and even less quality...
French Ban on Too-Skinny Models Passes
How many more fashion model deaths will it take before America passes legislation to ensure healthy-sized runway walkers? SOURCE: Eating...
When ‘Real Person Sick’ Is Hijacked by Diabetes
I sat in my doctor's office, feeling like a school child sitting in the principal's office, being scolded for not...
