"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Unlike organs like the liver or the heart, the pancreas plays a more subtle yet important role in a wide ...

Last May, I gave a lecture at the Air War College, the Air Force’s senior service school for officers. I have taught at West Point and spoken at several other senior service schools. At the Air War ...

Hollywood, Hollywood. You can’t help but get in your own way, can you? Some of Sunday night’s Oscars, hosted by Conan O’Brien, was very funny, sporadically interesting (there was only the seventh-ever ...

Researchers design a novel algorithm for controlling implanted insulin pumps that accounts for the unique characteristics of individual patients. Their model, tested using an FDA-approved diabetes ...

Pancreas development in pigs resembles humans much more closely than does the established mouse model. An international team headed by Helmholtz Munich and the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD ...

Lectures on Tap series brings professors and other experts into Boston restaurants and bars for talks that mix big ideas with food and drink. Lectures on Tap, an event series, brings ticketed lectures ...

This article is part of “Innovations In: Type 1 Diabetes,” an editorially independent special report that was produced with financial support from Vertex. Edward Damiano carved his life into precise ...

Mohammad Pourhosseinzadeh, M.D./Ph.D. student with Professor Mark Huising, watches undergraduate student Joel Sanchez working at a dissecting microscope. New work led by Pourhosseinzadeh and Huising ...

Two popular and returning speakers will launch the annual Florida Lecture Series at Florida Southern College in Lakeland. Gilbert King, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and host of the podcast “Bone ...

Duke University scientists have discovered that pancreatic alpha cells, long believed to only produce glucagon, actually generate powerful amounts of GLP-1 — the same hormone mimicked by popular ...