Gastric bypass can reverse diabetes in teens
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- Gastric bypass can reverse diabetes in teens
- Medical school conflicted over disclosures
- Indonesia to send medical team to Palestine
Gastric bypass can reverse diabetes in teens
USA Today
Researchers at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and five other medical centers followed 78 teenagers with type 2 diabetes a condition that occurs when the body doesn’t respond to the hormone insulin which helps metabolize food into energy. Eleven of the study participants ages 13 to 21 had gastric bypass surgery — sometimes prescribed for weight loss management in seriously obese people — and the others followed routine management of their diabetes with medicine and lifestyle modifications. All subjects were monitored closely for a year.
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Medical school conflicted over disclosures
Minneapolis Star Tribune MN
That debate hasn’t escaped the University of Minnesota’s medical school which is wrestling with a proposed new policy governing those relationships — and the embarrassing revelation that Dr. Leo Furcht co-chairman of the task force crafting the new rules was disciplined for a violating the U’s current policies. But do others on the committee have financial relationships with drug and medical device firms?The university requires faculty to disclose financial relationships of more than $10000. Earlier this year the Star Tribune requested those disclosures under the state’s public records law but the university declined saying they were private personnel data.
Indonesia to send medical team to Palestine
Xinhua China
29 (Xinhua) — The Indonesian government will send a team of three members representing its Medical Emergency Rescue Committee (MER-C) to Palestine to provide medical and logistic aids for Palestinian victims of Israeli air strikes in the Gaza strip the national Antara News Agency reported on Monday. “The MER-C representative will try to enter Gaza through Egypt and if they were denied access they would leave the medical and logistic aids at the border” said Jose Rizal MER-C spokesman. He said the three representatives from MER-C was made up of two doctors and a logistic manager. Before that Indonesia Healthy Ministry decided to send medicine assistance worth of 200000 U.
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