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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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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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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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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George L. King, MD, Chief Scientific Officer at Joslin Diabetes Center Named to Newly Endowed Professorship at Harvard Medical School

George L. King, MD, Chief Scientific Officer at Joslin Diabetes Center Named to Newly Endowed Professorship at Harvard Medical School

Boston – (March 11, 2022) – Joslin Diabetes Center is pleased to announce that Chief Scientific Officer George L. King, MD, section head of vascular cell biology, has been named the inaugural...
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Long-running Joslin study leads to potential therapeutic target for people with type 1 diabetes

Long-running Joslin study leads to potential therapeutic target for people with type 1 diabetes

Researchers demonstrate enzyme can protect kidneys against toxic effects of hyperglycemia in mouse models BOSTON – Nearly two million Americans have type 1 diabetes, a condition in which the body does...
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Joslin Diabetes Center Physicians Recognized in Boston Magazine’s 2022 ‘Top Doctors’

Joslin Diabetes Center Physicians Recognized in Boston Magazine’s 2022 ‘Top Doctors’

BOSTON – Boston magazine has named 11 physicians and surgeons from four medical specialties affiliated with the Joslin Diabetes Center to its annual ‘Top Doctors’ guide. Drawing from a Castle Connolly...
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Crosstalk between pancreatic cells may drive rare form of diabetes

Crosstalk between pancreatic cells may drive rare form of diabetes

Mutant digestive enzymes aggregate in nearby insulin-producing beta cells, triggering an inherited condition that may shed light on other diseases of the pancreas. In the pancreas, insulin-producing...
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Cracking the code for a new system of cell-to-cell signaling

Cracking the code for a new system of cell-to-cell signaling

Joslin researchers discover how cells select small microRNAs that are secreted in small vesicles called exosomes and regulate metabolism in other cells at a distance. Control of most bodily functions...
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Joslin Diabetes Center Joins Beth Israel Lahey Health

Joslin Diabetes Center Joins Beth Israel Lahey Health

Cambridge and Boston, MA (November 1, 2021) – Beth Israel Lahey Health (BILH) and Joslin Diabetes Center (Joslin) today announced that Joslin has officially joined the BILH system. Joslin’s expertise...
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Insulin resistance pinned to cell signaling defects that could act as therapy targets

Insulin resistance pinned to cell signaling defects that could act as therapy targets

Insulin resistance in the general population seems likely to be caused by a series of cell-specific signaling defects some of which appear to be sex-specific. In addition, only a portion of the...
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