The 12th annual Barnstable Brown Diabetes and Obesity Research Day is taking place this week on the University of Kentucky campus. The purpose of the event is to focus on current findings in diabetes and obesity-related research.
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Ready-to-use dasiglucagon (Zegalogue) an aqueous formula of a glucagon analogue reversed hypoglycemia for patients with type 1 diabetes in a median of 10 minutes, while plasma glucose recovery was achieved within 15 minutes for 99% of patients, according to phase III trial results. (
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Within the first few months of starting gender-affirming hormone therapy, mean systolic blood pressure was lower by 4 mm Hg for transfeminine individuals and higher by 2.6 mm Hg for transmasculine individuals. (
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Novo Nordisk is slated to test its oral semaglutide, approved for diabetes under the trade name Rybelsus, for obesity in a phase III trial after great success with once-weekly injectable semaglutide, which is marketed for diabetes under the name Ozempic. (
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Published 5 March 2021
A fortnight ago, the news broke that Distinguished Humanities Scholar of the University of Texas, Austin, Prof. Toyin Falola, has been awarded a Doctor of Letters degree by the Postgraduate School of the University of Ibadan. Were the latest academic memento an honorary degree, it would have caused little or no stir, especially as the recipient is already bedecked with laurels of recognition from across the globe. However, the statement posted online made clear that this is an earned degree being awarded by the University of Ibadan for the first time.
A Doctor of Letters can be described simply, as a Higher Doctorate degree, patterned in the Anglophone University tradition on the Oxford University, England’s prototype. Initially called the ‘Doctor of Literature’ at Oxford, the degree became known by the broader and more significant ‘Doctor of Letters’; some countries apply the name, ‘Doctor of Humane Letters’ to empha