Publisher: Healio

Medical accreditors, assessors and organizations have joined HHS’ nutrition education initiative.

Kwame Osei, MD, one of the first researchers to document ethnic disparities in diabetes and glucose regulation, recently died at age 75 years.

Treatment interruptions have been a long-standing issue with radiation therapy.

The overall treatment benefit of surgery vs. management at 30 days was significantly diminished at 90 and 180 days.

At the Cardiometabolic Health Congress, Sam Dagogo-Jack, MD, DSc, A. C. Mullins Chair in Translational Research, professor of medicine and director of the division of endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism and director of the Clinical Research Center at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, provided an overview of holistic behavioral approaches to obesity management via diet, exercise,… Read More

“I’ve always wanted to be a doctor,” Samuel Dagogo-Jack, MD, DSc, this year’s recipient of the American Diabetes Association’s Outstanding Achievement in Clinical Diabetes Research Award, told Healio.

Four pooled studies noted similar pharmacodynamic performance for epinephrine delivered via nasal spray or autoinjector, according to a poster presented at the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology Annual Meeting. These similarities persisted whether the spray was delivered in opposite nostrils or in the same nostril, Jay A. Lieberman, MD, FACAAI, associate professor, University of… Read More

Patients who participated in the program experienced these improvements within a year of enrollment, Christie F. Michael, MD, associate professor in the department of pediatrics at The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, and colleagues wrote in the report.