BY NAOMI KAPLAN: Many people consider breakfast to be the most important meal of the day, and perhaps that’s for good reason. Skipping it might increase your type 2 diabetes risk, according to a new review of several studies.
BY ILENE RAYMOND RUSH: In 2004, Penn became one of five federally sponsored centers to run a Phase 3 clinical trial of pancreatic islet transplantation – instead of whole pancreas transplants — for people with complicated diabetes who couldn’t sense their own hypoglycemia.
BY KRISTIN SAMUELSON-NORTHWESTERN: The two drugs—sulfonylureas and basal insulin—are commonly prescribed when metformin, a widely accepted initial Type 2 diabetes treatment, doesn’t work alone or isn’t tolerated.
BY MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL: People who are less likely to put on excess fat around their hips due to their genes are at higher risk of type 2 diabetes and heart attacks, according to a new study led by scientists from the Medical Research Council (MRC) Epidemiology Unit at the University of Cambridge.