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U-M diabetes center explores use of arthritis drug to control diabetes (9/30/2009)Can an anti-inflammatory drug used for years to manage arthritis help control type 2 diabetes? University of Michigan Comprehensive Diabetes Center will collaborate with investigators nationwide on the clinical trial that may one day lead to an inexpensive way to treat the most common form of diabetes.
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Study helps explain why the fat hormone leptin leads to rewarding ourselves (8/26/2009)Diabetes researchers describe for the first time a new bunch of leptin-responsive neurons that feed into the part of the brain that controls the rewarding properties we assign to things. These neurons and their targets influence our motivation for food, sex or a fancy car. Meet the expert: Martin G. Myers, Jr., M.D., Ph.D.
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U-M Hospitals & Health Centers rank 14th in the U.S. (7/16/2009)U.S. News & World Report honors U-M among the country's finest
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Heart surgery no better than drugs for patients with Type 2 diabetes (6/8/2009)A landmark study shows bypass or angioplasty is no better than drug therapy in reducing deaths among patients with Type 2 diabetes and heart disease. The University of Michigan was one of 49 sites in the international study led by the University of Pittsburgh.
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Triglycerides implicated in diabetes nerve loss (5/14/2009)A common blood test for triglycerides – a well-known cardiovascular disease risk factor – may also for the first time allow doctors to predict which patients with diabetes are more likely to develop the serious, common complication of neuropathy. Results from a new study suggest that diabetes patients with neuropathy should control lipid counts as rigorously as they do glucose levels. Meet the expert: Eva L. Feldman, M.D., Ph.D., U-M neurologist and director of the Program for Neurology Research & Discovery |
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Adult survivors of childhood cancer have lower bone mineral density (12/3/2008)Men who survived childhood leukemia treatment into adulthood were more likely to have low bone mineral density than other adults their age, putting them at risk of osteoporosis and bone fractures, according to a new study. Meet the expert: James Gurney, Ph.D. |
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Rapid rise in diabetes spurs UMHS to move, expand endocrinology clinic (9/18/2008)The number of Americans living with diabetes has more than doubled in the last 25 years, and will keep growing into the future as today's overweight children, teens and adults face a high risk of developing Type 2 diabetes. For this reason and more, UMHS will spend $4.5 million over the next nine months to move, consolidate and expand its outpatient space for diabetes care and most other adult endocrinology services. Meet the expert: Craig Jaffe, M.D.
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U-M Hospitals & Health Centers rank 13th in the U.S. (7/11/2008)A new national ranking of American hospitals again places the U-M Hospitals and Health Centers among the country’s finest, with a rank of 13th over all and recognition for excellence in 15 areas of specialized care. The new rankings, compiled by U.S.News & World Report and released online today, mark the 13th year in a row that U-M has been named to the honor roll of “America’s Best Hospitals.” Meet the expert: Doug Strong
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Vitamin D findings point to new treatment for heart failure (6/11/2008)Activated vitamin D protects the heart against avoid overwork and enlargement, two of the hallmarks of heart failure, U-M studies in animals show. The results, the first to show vitamin D can prevent the damaging effects of heart failure, add heart health to the growing list of vitamin D’s benefits. Meet the expert: Robert Simpson, Ph.D.
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Having heart surgery? Watch your blood sugar, especially if you’re overweight or older, U-M study finds (6/7/2008)Nearly half of all heart surgery patients may experience blood sugar levels high enough to require temporary insulin treatment after their operation, even though they’ve never had diabetes, according to a new study from the University of Michigan Health System. And a significant minority of those patients might need to take medicines for days or even weeks after they leave the hospital. Meet the expert: Roma Gianchandani, M.D.
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UMHS awarded $8.9M for Michigan Diabetes Research & Training Center (5/22/2008)Diabetes researchers at the U-M Health System have won a five-year, $8.9 million federal grant that will accelerate a broad range of studies aimed at understanding diabetes and its complications, and addressing the epidemic of type 2 diabetes that threatens to wreak havoc on the American public’s health for decades to come. Meet the expert: William Herman, M.D., MPH
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More kids with diabetes, few specialized pediatricians to care for them (3/10/2008)The number of physicians who specialize in caring for kids with diabetes and obese kids at risk for the disease is not keeping pace with demand for care, say reserachers at C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital. In a new study, they found that for every 290 children with diabetes, there is only one board-certified pediatric endocrinologist available to care for them. Plus, the ratio of obese children to board-certified pediatric endocrinologists is about 17,000 to one. Meet the expert: Joyce Lee, M.D., MPH |
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More young adults with diabetes hospitalized, costing billions (11/27/2007)A new study from researchers at C.S. Mott Children's Hospital finds a significant increase in the rate of hospitalizations among young Americans with diabetes. And, they say, this growing trend is costing Medicaid and private insurers billions each year in hospital fees. Meet the expert: Joyce Lee, M.D., MPH |
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Sabotage in the insulin factory? (10/1/2007)A glitch in the production and folding of molecules deep within the insulin-producing cells of the pancreas may be responsible for the death of those cells and the onset of diabetes, new animal research suggests. Meet the expert: Peter Arvan, M.D., Ph.D.
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U-M Hospitals and Health Centers again named among nation’s best on U.S.News & World Report hospital rankings (7/13/2007)The U-M Hospitals and Health Centers once again has earned a place among the best hospitals in the nation, according to rankings compiled by U.S.News & World Report. In its 12th straight year of making the upper echelon of the magazine's honor roll of "America's Best Hospitals," U-M comes in at 14th among the top 18. No other Michigan hospitals made the honor roll, which signifies across-the-board excellence in multiple medical specialties.
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Hormone therapy may improve the trip down memory lane (11/16/2006)Research from the U-M Health System suggests that hormone therapy might help women retain certain memory functions. In a new study, they report that a group of postmenopausal women showed more brain activity during a visual memory test than did women who were not taking the hormone therapy Learn more: menopause |
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Exciting times for people with diabetes means few excuses for high blo (11/6/2006)A generation ago, there was just one kind of pill that could help people with diabetes keep their blood sugar levels down. But today, virtually anyone with diabetes can find an option that will work for them, and keep their blood sugar low enough to prevent or delay long-term problems like heart attacks, blindness, amputation and kidney failure. Learn more: U-M’s Michigan Diabetes Research and Training Center
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U-M remains one of best hospitals in the country (7/7/2006)U.S. News & World Report has ranked the U-M Hospitals and Health Centers among the best in the nation. U-M also achieved a ranking in each of the 16 specialties listed by the magazine
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