Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
A 55-year-old grandmother is producing insulin on her own after her islet cells were removed from her pancreas and implanted into her forearm recently at Methodist.
After surgeons removed Wanda Prouty's pancreas, they implanted islet cells into her left arm to help prevent brittle diabetes that often occurs after this surgery. This ...
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
Sleep is just as important as what you eat or how much you exercise if you want to maintain a healthy waistline. Behaviorist Peggy Vincent with The Methodist Hospital Wellness Services says studies have shown that sleep loss disrupts a series of complex and interwoven metabolic and hormonal processes, which ...
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