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- A Decade Later, Lifestyle Changes or Metformin Still Lower Type 2 Diabetes Risk
- A Statement from the NIH Director, Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D., Regarding the 2006 NIH-Supported Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) Recipients
- Aiming for Near-Normal Blood Sugar Did Not Delay Combined Risk of Diabetic Damage
- Annual Report Targets Chronic Kidney Disease in the United States
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- Bladder tests before urinary incontinence surgery in women may be unnecessary
- Blood Stem-Cell Transplant Regimen Reverses Sickle Cell Disease in Adults
- Chronic Kidney Disease Rises While Most People with the Condition Remain Unaware
- Combination of Aspirin and an Anti-Clotting Drug Reduces Risk of Dialysis Access Failure
- Common Treatment for Chronic Prostatitis Fails to Reduce Symptoms
- Complications of chronic kidney disease occur earlier in children
- Daily hemodialysis helps protect kidney patients’ hearts
- Depression Linked to Bone-Thinning in Premenopausal Women
- Diabetes Rates Are Increasing Among Youth
- Diet and Exercise Delay Diabetes and Normalize Blood Glucose
- Drug-like compound stops thyroid overstimulation in early NIH studies
- Excess Fat Around the Waist May Increase Death Risk For Women
- Family problem-solving sessions help teens better manage diabetes
- Finding of long-sought drug target structure may expedite drug discovery
- First Human Embryonic Stem Cell Lines Approved for Use Under New NIH Guidelines
- For Safety, NHLBI Stops Intensive Blood Sugar Treatment Strategy in Clinical Trial of Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease
- Francine R. Kaufman, M.D. Begins Term as Diabetes Education Program Chair
- From Nerve Roots to Plant Roots — Researchers are Gaining Unexpected Insights into Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia
- Gene variant increases risk of kidney disease in African-Americans
- Gene Variant that may Prevent African Sleeping Sickness also Leads to Increased Chance of Kidney Disease
- Gregory G. Germino, M.D., Named Deputy Director of NIH’s National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
- Hearing Loss Is Common in People with Diabetes
- Heart disease and stroke deaths drop significantly for people with diabetes
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- Hepatitis C Treatment Reduces the Virus but Serious Liver Problems May Progress
- Human Microbiome Project Awards Funds for Technology Development, Data Analysis and Ethical Research
- Imaging Neural Progenitor Cells in the Living Human Brain
- Intensive Glucose Control Halves Complications of Longstanding Type 1 Diabetes
- Intensive therapy halves kidney disease in type 1 diabetes
- Intensive Training for Medical Staff in Latin American Hospitals Reduces
- Intervention Lowered Obesity Rate in Youth at High Risk, HEALTHY Study Finds
- John Buse to chair federal diabetes education program
- Kidney Disease Substantially Worsens in a Fourth of African Americans despite Therapy for Hypertension
- Kidney Expert Named Director of Kidney, Urology and Hematology Research
- Larger Labs Report Kidney Function Routinely
- Lifestyle intervention improves risk factors in type 2 diabetes
- Lower blood pressure goal benefits African-Americans with chronic kidney disease, protein in the urine
- Lucy Greene Appointed NIDDK Executive Officer
- Major Collaboration Uncovers Surprising New Genetic Clues to Diabetes
- Measurement of Kidney Function in Children with Kidney Disease Improved
- More Intensive Dialysis Does Not Improve Outcomes among Patients with Acute Kidney Injury
- Mothers' High Normal Blood Sugar Levels Place Infants at Risk for Birth Problems
- NDEP Campaign Highlights the Link Between Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease
- New NIH fact sheet explains test for diabetes, prediabetes
- New NIH program makes it easier to talk about a difficult GI problem
- New Pig Model of Cystic Fibrosis Lays Groundwork for Better Understanding of Human Disease
- New strategic plan for NIH obesity research seeks to curb epidemic
- New Survey Results Show Huge Burden of Diabetes
- New videos, website offer important resources for people affected by diabetes
- New website: NIH Clinical Research Trials and You
- Newly Identified Gene Variations Account for Increased Burden of Kidney Disease among African-Americans
- Newly Identified Genes Influence Insulin and Glucose Regulation
- News Advisory: New Teaching Tools Foster Science and Diabetes Education in Native American Schools
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- NIDDK Recovery Grant Funds Innovative Kidney Research Project for Students
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- NIDDK's Director Honored by Hematology Society
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- NIH announces new strategic plan to combat diabetes
- NIH encourages reducing disparities in kidney transplantation
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- NIH findings in mice have potential to curb obesity and type 2 diabetes
- NIH grantees win 2011 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine
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- NIH partners with industry to create new Living Lab for research into molecular structures that can affect disease
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- NIH research featured in HBO documentary series on obesity
- NIH research model predicts weight with varying diet, exercise changes
- NIH researchers identify new marker to predict progressive kidney failure, death
- NIH Researchers Identify New Steps in Spread of Malaria Parasite Through Bloodstream
- NIH State-of-the-Science Panel Seeks to Dispel Stigma Associated With Fecal and Urinary Incontinence
- NIH study finds genetic clues to major cause of kidney disease worldwide
- NIH study finds interventions to prevent type 2 diabetes give good return on investment
- NIH Study Finds Low Short-term Risks After Bariatric Surgery for Extreme Obesity
- NIH Study Offers Hope to Patients with Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis
- NIH study shows how insulin stimulates fat cells to take in glucose
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- NIH urges you to make a plan to prevent diabetes, complications
- NIH videos help health providers answer questions about dialysis: First series focuses on arteriovenous (AV) fistula surgery
- NIH, USU study maps hotspots of genetic rearrangement
- NIH-funded study finds more precise way to estimate kidney function
- Number of Americans with diabetes rises to nearly 26 million
- Number of People with Diabetes Increases to 24 Million
- Panel Advocates Improved Understanding of Hepatitis B and Screening of High-Risk Populations
- Panel finds Hydroxyurea Treatment is Underutilized for Sickle Cell Disease
- Patient Participation in Clinical Studies Is Critical for Progress, says NIDDK Director on World Diabetes Day
- People with Diabetes and Sickle Cell Trait Should Have Reliable A1C Test
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- Scientists Define 21 New Genes Associated with Crohn’s Disease
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- Statement of Griffin P. Rodgers, M.D., Director, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases for National Kidney Month
- Statement of Griffin P. Rodgers, M.D., Director, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases for National Kidney Month and World Kidney Day
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- Study Finds Two Sling Surgeries Equally Effective for Bladder Control in Women
- Study Finds Two Therapies Slow Diabetic Eye Disease
- Study Tests Anti-Inflammatory Drug for Poorly Controlled Type 2 Diabetes
- Teaching Tools Foster Science and Diabetes Education in Native American Schools
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- Treatment for rare form of diabetes discovered by NIH researchers
- Two drugs better than one to treat youth with type 2 diabetes
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