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Diabetes may be a common condition but there are still some parts of the condition that are misunderstood even by doctors and health care professionals treating these patients.

Thanks to the smartphone not only can patients better monitor their diabetes but the same information can be sent to parents of children to help ensure they are safe and healthy throughout the day.

While the number of treatments for type 1 diabetes lags behind those for type 2 there is still a lot of work being done to help these patients thanks in large part to technological advances.

A novel clinical intervention that combines mental training through meditation and physical training through aerobic exercise effectively reduces the symptoms of depression.

Research shows that a large majority of patients with chronic pain who are hospitalized after a nonfatal, prescription opioid-related overdose continue to receive this medication, despite discontinuation being associated with lower risk for repeat overdose.

Adolescent boys with HIV suffer greater bone loss than their female counterparts, possibly because estrogen is protective against two of the factors contributing to bone loss, a study in California found.

Non-pharmacologic approaches to pain relief are always welcome, but options are limited, and those that are available do not always provide adequate analgesia.

The lack of natural acids could potentially explain why some individuals are more susceptible to developing eczema.

For patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), cigarette smoke may damage the cellular protein "shredder," known as the immunoproteasome.

Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disorders (COPD) may achieve better pulmonary rehabilitation outcomes when rehab is combined with music therapy.

New technology uses the eyes to assess brain injuries in student athletes.

New device recommended for patients who can't tolerate blood thinners.

Hahnemann University Hospital in Philadelphia PA has gotten the okay to start transplanting livers and kidneys from HIV-positive donors into patients with HIV. The transplant team expects to do such a surgery within the next few weeks.

What do President Jimmy Carter and Kim Kardashian have in common? Well, probably nothing besides the fact that people’s perspectives on their health conditions were both examined in a recent study.

The degree to which the influenza vaccine protects patients from the virus depends on their ethnic background and other inherited factors.

When many people think of palliative care they assume it is meant to be done in the later stages of a person's illness. However, there is a push to show that it can be of benefit to patients much earlier and for longer periods of time.

Insomnia and nightmares appear to influence depression symptoms specifically through the pathway of explicit emotion regulation difficulties.

Patients with type 1 or type 2 diabetes mellitus can experience modest exocrine pancreatic insufficiency and moderate-to-severe subclinical pancreatic fibrosis even in the absence of pancreatitis.

The gut microbe composition of infants who are six weeks old depends on their birth delivery method and how they are fed, suggests findings published in JAMA Pediatrics.

Older patients who undergo gastrointestinal surgery often develop delirium, according to findings published in the British Journal of Surgery.

Analysis of cardiovascular registry data comparing components of the CHA2DS2-VASc score and oral anticoagulant use also found that women and patients with vascular disease were less likely than other patients with atrial fibrillation to be prescribed anticoagulation that is now indicated by standard guidelines.

A new trial of magnetic resonance imaging finds that analyzing scans for subclinical signs of inflammatory joint disease can help predict which psoriasis patients will go on to develop psoriatic arthritis.

Slow and steady won’t win the race to quit smoking, one recent study finds.

Women suffering from ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn’s disease (CD) experience lower success rates per embryo transfer when they undergo assisted reproductive technology (ART) treatments than women who do not have inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).

Nearly one-quarter of resident physicians are depressed or experience depressive symtoms.

A newly discovered class of anti-biofilm compounds derived from marine microorganisms appears to show promise against a drug-resistant bacterium commonly associated with hospital-acquired infections.

Increasing health care providers' level of awareness and concern regarding prescription drug abuse in their communities may help encourage voluntary reductions in prescribing and/or dispensing of controlled substances

Estrogen may be a driving factor behind the fact that young men infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) have higher rates of bone loss than HIV-infected women.

Study results suggest that symptoms consistent with post-traumatic stress disorder, depressive symptoms, physical peer violence, cyberbullying, and community violence exposure appear to be common and interrelated among adolescents presenting to the emergency department.

The hepatitis C virus has contributed to an increased rate in liver cancer and related deaths during a time when overall cancer deaths continue to decline, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.