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Supplementing with peptides: Good for extra pep or a needless step?

Health Lab talks to Jorge Ruas, Ph.D., of the U-M Department of Pharmacology, about peptides, how they work and whether supplementing them lends any benefit.
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New study reveals a missing step in a weight control pathway that could be targeted for obesity treatment

New research led by Liangyou Rui, Ph.D., of the Department of Molecular & Integrative Physiology at the University of Michigan Medical School outlines a missing step in one of these alternative pathways, an important discovery in the fight against obesity.
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From simulation to practice for doctors

A doctor discusses how simulation practice is helping to sharpen skills of pediatric anesthesia specialists.
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New hope for early diabetes detection

The research offers an actionable monitoring method that may guide the administration of current and emerging therapeutics more effectively than the current diagnostics that only assess disease risk or detect disease after destruction of insulin producing cells.
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Rare infant triplet overcomes one-in-a-million type of liver cancer

Josephine “JoJo” Wells, a spontaneous triplet, was diagnosed with rare hepatoblastoma at nine months old and treated with surgery and chemotherapy.
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A complex fetal surgery to help a baby’s lungs grow

Doctors perform a rare in utero procedure aimed at improving outcomes for a 29-week fetus diagnosed with severe congenital diaphragmatic hernia