January 6, 2009 08:19 AM EDT

GH not beneficial for treatment of ALS

Insulin-like growth factor type 1 provided no benefit for patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Results from the two-year study, published in Neurology, demonstrated no effect of IGF-1 on slowing the progression of weakness in the disease.

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April 21, 2009

Pacific Coast Reproductive Society 2009

Indian Wells, ca United States of America

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"Glycemic control has been very satisfactory since then but he still cannot be weaned from the tube feeding and the reason for this escapes me..."

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HAPO results reveal that a mother’s glucose level directly affects pregnancy outcomes

Physicians who treat women with gestational diabetes marked an important milestone in May. The long-awaited Hyperglycemia and Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes results, first presented at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the American Diabetes Association, were published in The New England Journal of Medicine. Since then, HAPO researchers from around the world have sought a consensus in diagnosing the disease. The HAPO results showed strong associations between the m...

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Endocrine Today by the numbers
BP Profiles of Children with Type 1 Diabetes
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