People with exemplar 1 diabetes today elude more than a decade of human to the chronic disease, despite improved treatment of both diabetes and its complications, a changed Scottish study reports. Men with category 1 diabetes lose about 11 years of life expectancy compared to men without the disease. And, women with order 1 diabetes… Read More
Preliminary research suggesting that some diabetes patients may be injecting medicine that has partially disintegrated is causing concern even as serious questions are raised about the research itself… “If that were true, then you would have the emergency rooms full with uncontrolled diabetic patients,” said Bernd Meibohm, a pharmaceutical sciences professor and research director at… Read More
Type 2 diabetes is preceded sometimes up to years by the stage of prediabetes. The more attention healthcare professionals put on identifying and treating patients during this stage can significantly slow or sometimes even prevent the progression to diabetes altogether, says Samuel Dagogo-Jack. In this exclusive MedPage Today video, Dagogo-Jack, MD, of Chief, Division of… Read More
Working with a coalition of Memphis-area primary care doctors, the University of Tennessee Health Science Center is gearing up for a program that tests a novel idea for helping African-American adults diagnosed with diabetes better manage their disease. Dr. Stanley Dowell, shown, is helping lead a study for which the University of Tennessee Health Science… Read More
Dr. Sam Dagogo-Jack, professor of medicine and chief of the division of endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis, helped lead a major study showing that lifestyle and diet changes can reduce by up to 58 percent the occurrence of diabetes among people who are pre-diabetic. Lifestyle and diet, the study… Read More
Dr. Jim Bailey of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center has been awarded $5.2 million in funding from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute.
Samuel Dagogo-Jack, MD, FRCP, of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center has received a $1.1 million grant to continue the Diabetes Prevention Program Outcomes Study. Dr. Dagogo-Jack, who directs the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism in the College of Medicine at UTHSC, has worked to fight against diabetes throughout his career.
A medical study of how text messaging and health coaching may help African Americans with uncontrolled diabetes will be launched in Memphis with a $5.2 million research award to a University of Tennessee Health Science Center researcher … Dr. Jim Bailey, director of the Center for Health System Improvement and professor of internal and preventive… Read More
