Is obesity one of the least talked-about risk factors for severe complications from COVID-19?
The data is not yet overwhelming, but an increasing…
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New findings from high-throuput techniques looking at the effects of obesity on pregnancy and infants:
Metabolomics and Diabetes in Pregnancy…
One thing I hear occasionally among type 1 diabetics is, “Well, at least I can’t get type 2 diabetes!” This reasoning makes…
I heard Derek Yach speak at Albert Einstein’s Global Diabetes Summit last September. He presented a case to curb obesity, hunger and…
Obesity is the main culprit in the worldwide avalanche of type 2 diabetes. But how excess weight drives insulin resistance, the condition that may lead to the disease, is only partly understood. Scientists at Joslin Diabetes Center now have uncovered a new way in which obesity wreaks its havoc, by altering the production of proteins that affect how other proteins are spliced together. Their finding, published in Cell Metabolism, may point toward novel targets for diabetes drugs...
Last month the Obesity Society held its 28th Annual Scientific Meeting, Obesity 2010, in San Diego. A number of prominent researchers, physicians, advocates, and business leaders...
According to a new study published online in Diabetologia, obese adolescents with type 2 diabetes may experience changes in their brains that affect how well they are learning in school. Cognitive and brain impairments, have been documented in adults with type 2 diabetes...
I see in diabetes we are in a constant state of doing the wrong thing and then trying to make it right...
Proteins play critical roles in our body. The most well-known is their role in building lean body mass (muscle)...
Novo Nordisk today announced the decision to re-initiate the global phase 3 development program of liraglutide for the treatment of obesity.
Following the US approval of Victoza for the treatment of type 2 diabetes, Novo Nordisk has been in dialogue with the FDA regarding the further progression of the development program investigating...