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Phase 3 Trial Finds Oral Empagliflozin Provided Safe Glycemic Control in Children with Type 2 Diabetes

Phase 3 Trial Finds Oral Empagliflozin Provided Safe Glycemic Control in Children with Type 2 Diabetes

Joslin Diabetes Center researchers completed a phase 3 clinical trial of two different classes of oral agents for the treatment of type 2 diabetes in young people aged 10-17 years. Read about their findings.
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Joslin and COVID-19

Joslin and COVID-19

Joslin is committed to providing a safe environment for our staff and patients and therefore we have precautions in place to prevent the spread of infectious disease including: Masking: all patients...
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Joslin and COVID-19 Vaccine(s)

Joslin and COVID-19 Vaccine(s)

Joslin does not have a supply of COVID-19 vaccine and therefore we are unable to offer it to patients. However, the vaccines are now widely available to anyone over the age of 5 years old and both...
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Joslin Diabetes Center Physicians Recognized in Boston Magazine’s 2023 ‘Top Doctors’

Joslin Diabetes Center Physicians Recognized in Boston Magazine’s 2023 ‘Top Doctors’

BOSTON – Boston Magazine has named 10 physicians from three medical specialties affiliated with Joslin Diabetes Center to its annual ‘Top Doctors’ guide. Drawing from a Castle Connolly Medical Ltd...
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Selected Winter Publications from Joslin Faculty

Selected Winter Publications from Joslin Faculty

At Joslin, our researchers are making incredible discoveries that improve diabetes care and move us closer to a cure. Below are selected academic publications led by Joslin faculty issued in recent...
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Researchers Shed Light on How Exercise Preserves Physical Fitness During Aging

Researchers Shed Light on How Exercise Preserves Physical Fitness During Aging

Findings may represent promising strategies for promoting muscle function during aging
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Exercise and Obesity Have Opposite Impact on Muscle, Fat Tissues, Researchers Demonstrate

Exercise and Obesity Have Opposite Impact on Muscle, Fat Tissues, Researchers Demonstrate

Joslin Diabetes Center investigators studied how three metabolic tissues respond to exercise and to high-fat diet-induced obesity. Read about their findings.
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Selected Summer Publications from Joslin Faculty

Selected Summer Publications from Joslin Faculty

At Joslin, our researchers are making incredible discoveries that improve diabetes care and move us closer to a cure. Below are selected academic publications led by Joslin faculty issued in June...
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Study Reverses Long-Held Ideas About Relationship Among Diabetes, Fat and Cardiovascular Disease

Study Reverses Long-Held Ideas About Relationship Among Diabetes, Fat and Cardiovascular Disease

Joslin Diabetes Center researchers studied the relationship among diabetes, fat and cardiovascular disease, finding that blood vessels are a key regulator of brown fat and energy metabolism.
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Gut Microbe Peptide Implicated in Triggering Type 1 Diabetes

Gut Microbe Peptide Implicated in Triggering Type 1 Diabetes

Joslin Diabetes Center research finds a link between a gut bacterium and the development of type 1 diabetes in children at genetic risk of this disease.
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Your New Career Starts Here

Your New Career Starts Here

Join our team and build a career with one of the leading healthcare systems in Massachusetts! We’re hiring nurses at all levels, support service workers, clinical support team members and more. No matter the role, every team member makes a difference in people’s lives. Help us advance our mission to bring top quality health care to all in our communities. Apply today!
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Cold Temps May Help to Combat Obesity and Related Metabolic Diseases by Reducing Inflammation, Researchers Find

Cold Temps May Help to Combat Obesity and Related Metabolic Diseases by Reducing Inflammation, Researchers Find

Joslin Diabetes Center's research team found that exposure to cold temperatures can reduce inflammation, which may promote weight loss and metabolic health.
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Grandmaternal exercise has benefits for grand offspring, researchers find

Grandmaternal exercise has benefits for grand offspring, researchers find

Exercise during pregnancy could help reduce worldwide incidence of obesity and type 2 diabetes BOSTON – For eight months at the end of World War II, the Nazis blocked food supplies to the Netherlands...
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Controlling blood sugar may improve response to exercise training

Controlling blood sugar may improve response to exercise training

BOSTON – Exercise carries a long list of benefits for everyone. For people with metabolic diseases like pre-diabetes, type 1 diabetes and type 2 diabetes, physical activity can help keep blood sugar...
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Joslin Diabetes Center Receives $8.5 Million for NIH-Sponsored Diabetes Research Center (DRC) Program

Joslin Diabetes Center Receives $8.5 Million for NIH-Sponsored Diabetes Research Center (DRC) Program

Boston, MA – (April 21, 2022) – Joslin Diabetes Center, the preeminent institution for diabetes research and care, affiliated with Harvard Medical School and a part of Beth Israel Lahey Health, has...
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