UC San Diego Health System Receives Prestigious Quality Award from Integrated Healthcare Association
October 27, 2011
…“Top Overall Physician Performing Organization” with honorable mentions in “Diabetes Care” and “IT Enabled Systemness.”
Your search for “Diabetes” returned 416 results
White Blood Cells Mediate Insulin Resistance
August 6, 2012
…insulin resistance – the central characteristic of type 2 diabetes, which afflicts an estimated 26 million Americans.
Collaborative Diabetes Clinic Lowers Health Care Costs
February 27, 2017
…Diego are running a Diabetes Intensive Medical Management (DIMM) “tune up” clinic for complex type 2 diabetes patients. In a study published in the March 2017 issue of the Journal of Managed Care & Specialty Pharmacy, the researchers report the clinic’s economic benefits, which include an estimated cost avoidance of…
The Paired Perils of Breast Cancer and Diabetes
May 30, 2022
UC San Diego researchers discover mechanism linking breast cancer and diabetes, each of which promotes development and growth of the other.
Exosomes are the Missing Link to Insulin Resistance in Diabetes
September 21, 2017
…an underlying cause of insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes. But the mechanism by which this occurs has remained cloaked, until now. In a paper, University of California San Diego School of Medicine researchers identified exosomes — extremely small vesicles or sacs secreted from most cell types — as the…
Summer Research Conference Showcases San Diego’s Young Scholars Aug. 16
August 9, 2012
Undergraduate students from San Diego County’s major universities will present their research at the 2012 Summer Research Conference at the University of California, San Diego Thursday, Aug. 16.
“Open” Stem Cell Chromosomes Reveal New Possibilities for Diabetes
April 2, 2015
Cells of the intestine, liver and pancreas are difficult to produce from stem cells. Writing in Cell Stem Cell April 2, researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have discovered that chromosomes in laboratory stem cells open slowly over time, in the same sequence that occurs during…
Birth Weight is Risk Factor for Fatty Liver Disease in Children
April 4, 2017
Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, with a cohort of clinical collaborators from across the United States, have demonstrated the impact of low and high birth weights in developing Non Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD), a chronic disease that often leads to a need for organ…
Fatty Acid Test: Why Some Harm Health, But Others Help
September 29, 2011
A major risk factor for cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes and other health- and life-threatening conditions, obesity is epidemic in the United States and other developed nations where it’s fueled in large part by excessive consumption of a fat-rich “Western diet.”
Diabetes Drug Found No Better Than Placebo at Treating NAFLD
May 12, 2016
A diabetes medication described in some studies as an effective treatment for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) works no better than a placebo, report researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, after conducting the first randomized, double-blind, controlled clinical trial of sitagliptin, an oral antihyperglycemic marketed by…
