Endocrinology

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières urges that its cargo planes carrying essential medical and surgical material be allowed to land in Port-au-Prince in order to treat thousands of wounded waiting for vital surgical operations.

Isabelle Jeanson, a Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières emergency communications officer, has been with the MSF teams in Port-au-Prince since January 15. Here she describes the situation as of January 17.

Here are some general facts about last week's earthquake in Haiti and the aid that has been given by other countries around the world.

Healthcare professionals looking to donate time or money to disaster relief efforts in Haiti will find information on how to do so through these ten organizations.

A meta analysis found that participants using insulin pumps had significantly lower HbA1c levels than those using multiple daily injections, though no differences existed between the two for non-severe low blood glucose levels.

Risk factors such as high cholesterol, diabetes and high blood pressure are being found at an earlier age for survivors of pediatric cancer than in the general population.

Diabetes treatment typically requires multiple medications, meaning beneficiaries with diabetes are likely to reach the doughnut hole sooner than are those who do not have chronic diseases.

University of Pennsylvania researchers are testing whether people with a lower body mass index may benefit from surgery to treat type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure or other significant health problems.

Fibrocytes are present at a higher than normal frequency in patients with Graves' disease and often result in excessive scarring.

A University of Chicago study study confirms that undiagnosed OSA is very common among patients with type 2 diabetes, indicating that it is a largely unrecognized additional medical risk factor in these patients.

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières have been working together to treat as many of the people who were injured after the 7.0 earthquake that hit Haiti on Tuesday afternoon.

Patients already have enough to worry about without now having to worry about this.

These past months, we have been discussing reality - we are not doing well compared to other systems of care; we cannot afford to continue what we are doing--it's a veritable shell game.

The 2010 Consumer Electronics Show recently concluded in Las Vegas; but aside from everything transforming into 3D, there were some other advances and introductions in the world of tech gadgets that are worth mentioning.

"The current health care reform proposal is just a beginning," says Norman Makous, MD. "This legislation addresses health coverage reform. The problem that has not been touched in the current legislation relates to how we provide medical services.

This 10-part series will expose why consumers and doctors are getting the short shrift in all healthcare reform proposals.

A longitudinal study of HIV-positive and HIV-negative postmenopausal women found that HIV infection was independently associated with lower bone mineral density, though the reason for the bone loss remains unclear.

New research suggests that excessive reduction in fat mass could have adverse effects on the developing skeleton, particularly in girls, leading to an increased risk of osteoporosis in later life.

MDNG editorial board member Larry Chu, MD will cover the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show live via this page on HCPLive.com. Sign up below for a reminder to come back after 11:00AM (EST) on January 7.

Research on TENS for chronic low-back pain has produced conflicting results.

It looks like 2010 is starting off with some changes in healthcare on the horizon – from a number of angles.

This online CME program is based on a study that appeared online December 11, 2009 in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, and is designed for primary care clinicians, cardiologists, endocrinologists, and other specialists who care for obese children.

In the current Revisions to the Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes, the section on Diagnosis of Diabetes has been revised to include the use of A1C to diagnose diabetes, with a cut-point of 6.5 percent or greater.

Several recent studies have demonstrated that text messaging can produce measurable clinical benefits such as improved glucose test rates and a decrease in acute liver rejection episodes.

Researchers have found that so-called "good cholesterol" (high-density lipoprotein, or HDL), has less heart-protective and blood vessel-protective effects in people with type 2 diabetes.

RNA and DNA analyses of blood samples taken from patients undergoing treatment in the cardiac catheterization lab at the University of North Carolina identified the existence of variations in glucose metabolizing genes that might lead to health-related differences in these racially distinct patient groups.

South Dakota State University has demonstrated that a culturally based nutrition intervention can promote small, but beneficial, changes in weight among Native Americans.

Because the thyroid cancer rate is rising rapidly, especially among women, the American Thyroid Association's members are working to educate more people about thyroid cancer as well as treat and cure it.

New evidence suggests that steroids could improve vision outcomes from diabetic macular edema, but that steroids were not superior to laser treatments for DME.

Scientists at Joslin Diabetes Center have found that a relatively little-studied enzyme plays a central role in defending beta cells against oxidants, but is damaged by the high levels of blood glucose produced in diabetes.