Gastric Bypass & Diabetes
Gastric Bypass Can Help Treat Diabetes, But There Are Risks
According to Reuters, a study published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology has found that type 2 diabetes patients have better...
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Regenerative Medicine
New Rat Limb Grown from Extracellular Matrix
A newer technique, according to CBS News, called decellularization, has been used to create a new rat limb from a deceased rat donor. Decellularization is a method where scientist take the extracellular matrix of the donor cells and use that as the scaffold for the new limb. Then, the rats own stem cells...
Cholesterol Management
New Drug Shown to Lower LDL Cholesterol
Jun 8, 2015
| Endocrinology, Family Medicine, Hospitalist, Internal Medicine, Public Health & Prevention, The Daily Dose
According to Reuters, Repatha is a new drug developed by Amgen that helps to lower cholesterol without seeming to have serious adverse side effects. The next step in the process is on Wednesday, when outside advisors to the FDA will recommend whether they believe the drug should be approved or not....
Jun 5, 2015
| Family Medicine, Patient Education, Pediatrics, Psychiatry & Mental Health, The Daily Dose
According to CBS News, a study published by the BMJ Medical Journal reports that a significant portion of adult depression cases can be linked to childhood bullying experiences. In the study of nearly 4,000 individuals, nearly 20% said they experienced frequent bullying and 15% of of those individuals...
Schizophrenia in Humans Linked to Cat Parasite
Jun 5, 2015
WHO Changes Age Recommendations for Mammograms
Jun 4, 2015
