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A doctor administering a diabetic blood test to a child while their parent looks on.
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Diabetes in children

November 14, 2022November 11, 2022Diabetes, endocrinology, pediatrics

Diabetes of any type can occur in children and adolescents. Regardless of what type of diabetes a child has, an expert at Baylor College of

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Diabetes awareness: What you need to know

November 12, 2021November 12, 2021Department of Medicine, Diabetes, endocrinology, Healthcare

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

June 6, 2018June 13, 2018Diabetes, Dr. Siripoom McKay, endocrinology, Healthcare, Nicole Blanton, Young Adult Diabetes Clinic

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

March 27, 2018Diabetes, Diabetes Alert Day, endocrinology, Healthcare, Nicole Blanton

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

March 12, 2018March 12, 2018Dr. Siripoom McKay, Education, endocrinology, Growing Up Baylor

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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From The Labs 

The multi-tasking nature of the hormone asprosin

January 19, 2018February 5, 2018AgRP neurons, apetite control, appetite control, asprosin, blood-brain barrier, endocrinology, extreme thinnes, hypothalamus, neonatal progeroid syndrome, ovesity, POMC neurons

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

November 20, 2017February 14, 2018CARM1, coactivators, endocrinology, ER-alpha, estrogen, hormone action, p300, SRC-3B

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

September 27, 2017January 26, 2021Cancer, Dr. James Suliburk, endocrinology, Nicole Blanton, Surgery, thyroid cancer, thyroid disease

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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From The Labs 

Discovery of the new hormone asprosin could have potential implications in treatment of diabetes

June 1, 2016asprosin, Diabetes, endocrinology, neonatal progeroid syndrome, whole exome sequencing

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

February 17, 2015Digests, endocrinology, microbiome

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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