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Individuals with diabetes have a higher risk of developing an eating disorder.

Low levels of protein in individuals with asthma, identified as an epithelial-derived smooth muscle-relaxing factor.

Technique may improve wound healing and reduce health care costs.

Call to action for the implementation of evidence-based medicine.

Prevention and treatment recommendations on diabetic neuropathy for primary care providers.

Need for insulin therapy may be an independent factor affecting AF-related stroke/systemic embolism occurrence.

Cognitive tests and fMRI scans help identify whether patients will respond to antidepressant therapy.

Diabetes care impacted by language barriers.

Children with asthma have a greater risk of developing obesity than children without asthma.

Calcium channel blocker dramatically improved symptom scores in patients with chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps.

Yoga is a mind-body exercise sometimes used for nonspecific low back pain.

Propranolol granted Orphan Drug Designation by the European Commission.

Black patients more likely to exhibit eosinophilic airway inflammation than white patients.

In total dollars spent, diabetes costs Americans more than any other disease.

Post-polio syndrome affects polio survivors 30 to 40 years after they've recovered from their initial poliomyelitis.

Lubiprostone a promising treatment for chronic idiopathic constipation.

Dexcom G5 CGM could replace traditional finger-stick tests of blood glucose levels.

Primary care physicians and nurse practitioners are taking on more areas of co-infection out of necessity.

Drug manufacturer making progress in the quest for a diabetes cure.

A new book provides guidelines to help diabetics live healthy and normal lives.

Non-physician health professionals believe improving health insurance coverage for weight loss services could help obese individuals lose weight.

Low health literacy, financial instability, and lack of social support promote poor adherence.

Clinicians rely on a limited number of drugs to help patients with type 2 diabetes.

The discovery of a fundamental mechanism may provide different approaches for vaccine development.

Diagnostic errors impact the outcomes of patients with asthma and COPD.

The rise in indoor temperatures worsened respiratory symptom scores and increased the use of recuse inhalers, a new study found.

The National Standard for Diabetes Self-Management Education and Support differentiates 2 important ways to improve diabetes care.

Past research has shown that conditions such as heart disease, obesity, and diabetes occur more frequently following menopause. However, recent study results suggest the exact opposite.

Patients with Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia often have difficulty communicating.

Today, 99,478 of the 120,001(83%) of patients on the organ transplant waiting list in the United States still await a kidney transplant.