A simple home urine test has been developed which can measure if patients with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes are producing their own insulin. The urine test, from Professor Andrew Hattersley’s Exeter-based team at the Peninsula Medical School, replaces…
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Brain might be key to leptin’s actions against type 1 diabetes, UT Southwestern researchers find
DALLAS — Oct. 20, 2010 — New findings by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers suggest a novel role for the brain in mediating beneficial actions of the hormone leptin in type 1 diabetes.
“Our findings really pave the way for understand…