Thomas K. Byrne, MD, Professor General and Gastrointestinal Surgery, Medical University of South California, discusses obesity and surgery. The criteria for surgery are a BMI over 40 plus…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Pain associated with diabetic neuropathy is improved to a similar degree with daily amitriptyline or duloxetine, according to the results of a cross-over…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – As well as improving HbA1c, continuous glucose monitoring reduces the time spent in hypoglycemia for children and adults with type 1 diabetes on…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with type 2 diabetes have better glycemic control and less nausea when exenatide is given weekly rather than twice daily, according to…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) -– A point-of-care test for beta-hydroxybutyrate in capillary blood is more specific than a urine dipstick for ketones in identifying diabetic ketoacidosis in emergency-department…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For women with thyroid cancer treated with radioiodine-131, subsequent pregnancy is safe without adverse outcomes for the offspring. That’s according to a report…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A new clinical practice guideline from the American College of Physicians recommends strongly against the use of intensive insulin therapy to normalize high…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In older adults, mean serum levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D are somewhat higher after a year of taking cholecalciferol (vitamin D3) compared to ergocalciferol…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In a randomized, single-center study of critically ill patients in an intensive care unit, permissive enteral underfeeding was associated with lower morbidity and…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Research shows that biliopancreatic diversion (BPD) significantly reduces renal and cardiovascular complications over 10 years in morbidly obese individuals with newly diagnosed type…