Italian doctors have completed the world’s first robotically assisted pancreatic transplant.
This operation could lead to new solutions for diabetes treatments because the procedure’s “mini–invasive” nature significantly reduces post–operation complications‚ according to the surgical team at the university hospital in Pisa. Using the robotic technique‚ surgeons can carry out the transplant with three small holes and a seven–centimeter Read the rest of this entry »
South Korea is different from the United States.
In some important respects this Asian country is more like America than most of us would think. This country is a democracy with a booming economy.
But the differences are great and go beyond Korea’s use of a different language and even a different alphabet than Westerners use. The differences go far beyond history and tradition. The biggest differences Read the rest of this entry »
New research suggests a link between a child’s risk of Type 2diabetes and the weight and the amount of fat in the father’s diet at the time of conception, according to an article on DLife.
This is the first study to connect a father’s weight and diet to the offspring’s risk of metabolic disease. For the study, researchers fed male rats a diet high in fat to induce obesity and glucose intolerance. The obese rats were then mated Read the rest of this entry »
Stanley Kim is a practicing physician in Southern California who recently invented the smallest and painless lancets for testing our blood glucose. I wrote about this invention here this August.
At that time Dr. Kim and I hadn’t met. I interviewed him on the phone from my home office in Colorado.
We had to travel all the way to South Korea to meet in person. We are in Busan, Korea’s second largest city with about 3.6 million residents. Read the rest of this entry »
Your children may refuse their vegetables, your spouse may constantly snack, and your parents may expect a sugar-and-butter-laden dessert. No one wants to start a family feud, but how do you keep everyone happy and healthy when it comes to mealtime? Diabetes Forecast, the consumer magazine of the American Diabetes Association, offers ideas for making meals a family affair, with extras on cooking with kids and healthy twists on Read the rest of this entry »