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July 20, 2009
…cells that produce a second hormone, glucagon, which raises blood glucose levels. The cells that produce insulin are called beta cells; the cells that produce glucagon are called alpha cells….
July 17, 2009
…a neglected tropical disease, ranks with malaria and tuberculosis as a major cause of disease worldwide. “The reason we don’t have this infection in the U.S. is we don’t have…
July 7, 2009
…policy and environmental changes that can help reverse childhood obesity,” said Amelie Ramirez, Dr.P.H., director of Salud America! and the Institute for Health Promotion Research (IHPR) at the UT Health…
June 4, 2009
…TexasLivingWill.org stores unsigned copies, in case people cannot find their signed copies or want to make changes. The Web site is sponsored by the Center for Medical Humanities & Ethics,…
May 28, 2009
SAN ANTONIO (May 28, 2009) – A California woman makes the 2,300-mile roundtrip to South Central Texas twice a month to take part in a clinical trial at the Cancer…
May 27, 2009
…new 3-dimensional images of the abnormal molecules. Their work, which was published online April 21 in the journal Biochemistry, may shed light on what causes the disease in one of…