Diabetes awareness: What you need to know
Dr. Dimpi Desai discusses the different types of diabetes and what you need to know about diagnosis and treatment.
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Living with young adult diabetes: What you should know
Living with diabetes is challenging for anyone, but can be especially difficult for young adults who are transitioning out of the pediatric healthcare system into
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Diabetes Alert Day: Know your risk
Even if you have never been personally affected by diabetes, chances are you know someone who has. According to the Centers for Disease Control and
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Growing Up Baylor: Dr. Siripoom McKay
Imagine studying, training and eventually working at the same institution during the span of your career. A special group of physicians, faculty members, researchers and
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The multi-tasking nature of the hormone asprosin
When Dr. Atul Chopra, a medical geneticist at Baylor College of Medicine, and his colleagues discovered in 2016 a new hormone called asprosin that regulates
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How estrogen regulates gene expression
Estrogens are a group of hormones that are essential for normal female sexual development and for the healthy functioning of the reproductive system. They also
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Thyroid cancer awareness: Know your risk
Thyroid cancer is the eighth most common cancer in the United States – however, it is one of the most treatable. More than 98 percent
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Discovery of the new hormone asprosin could have potential implications in treatment of diabetes
By Dipali Pathak When Dr. Atul Chopra began studying a rare genetic condition called neonatal progeroid syndrome (NPS) he did not suspect that his discoveries
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Effects of low birthweight span generations but are overcome with diet
By Ruth SoRelle, M.P.H. Rat pups born too small are likely to be obese in adulthood and at greater risk for metabolic syndrome and insulin
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Less is more for mouse sprinters
By Ruth SoRelle, M.P.H. Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt electrified the world when he won three gold medals at the 2008 Olympics in Bejing – the
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