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The American Diabetes Association Releases Psychosocial Recommendations for Medical Providers

Guidelines encourage comprehensive, personalized mental health assessment and treatment as part of routine diabetes care Living with diabetes can be challenging on many levels, and complex environmental, social, behavioral and emotional issues—known as psychosocial factors—influence the health of people living with the disease, as well as their ability to manage their diabetes. The American Diabetes...
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European Commission Proposal on Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals Fails to Protect Public

Endocrine experts say new regulations unable to properly identify harmful chemicals The Endocrine Society expressed disappointment today in the European Commission’s revised proposal on defining and identifying endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs), citing unnecessarily narrow criteria for identifying EDCs that will make it nearly impossible for scientists to meet the unrealistically high burden of proof and protect...
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Positive Results in Phase 2b Study of Metformin Delayed Release in Type 2 Diabetes

Positive results were reported last week in a Phase 2b dose-ranging study, which met the primary endpoint of showing a statistically significant reduction in HbA1c at 16 weeks with delayed-release metformin compared with placebo in subjects with type 2 diabetes. Elcelyx Therapeutics is marketing this drug as Metformin DR, an investigational product designed to target metformin delivery to...
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Diets Avoiding Dry-Cooked Foods Can Protect Against Diabetes

Simple changes in how we cook could go a long way towards preventing diabetes, say researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. A new randomized controlled trial funded by the National Institutes of Health and by the National Institute of Research Resources, published in Diabetologia, found that obese individuals with signs of...
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Blood Biomarkers Identified in Drug-Resistant Cancer Tumor Cells

While searching for a non-invasive way to detect prostate cancer cells circulating in blood, Duke Cancer Institute researchers have identified some blood markers associated with tumor resistance to two common hormone therapies. In a study published online this month in the journal Clinical Cancer Research, the authors reported that they isolated multiple key gene alterations...
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