One of the most frustrating and debilitating complications of diabetes is the development of wounds on the foot or lower
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Pediatric obesity, depression connected in the brain
Early-life obesity and depression may be driven by shared abnormalities in brain regions that process rewards, according to researchers at
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Most widely prescribed diabetes drug improves nicotine withdrawal symptoms in animal model
Metformin, the most widely used medication for diabetes, has also been shown to help treat dementia and some cancers. New
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Resistance training enhances recycling capacity in muscles
A new study at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland reports that autophagosome content is increased by resistance training in previously
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Risk of type 1 diabetes climbs when one population of T cells falls: Study in mice links protective immune cells that form outside the thymus with autoimmune diabetes — and suggests that gut microbes affecting this cell population may protect against disease
In autoimmune diseases such as type 1 diabetes, some of the immune system’s T cells mistakenly attack the body’s own
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