Surgical Treatment Options for Chronic Pancreatitis
This painful condition can lead to malnutrition and diabetes.
Category: Endocrinology
Managing Your Child’s Diabetes
Age-specific guidelines for diabetes care.
Children, Diabetes, Endocrinology, Health, Pediatric Medicine
Challenges and Hope for Girls and Women with Turner Syndrome
This chromosomal condition causes short stature and a lack of ovarian development.
Children, Endocrinology, Health, Pediatric Medicine, UNC Stories
How Doctors Evaluate Lumps in the Neck for Thyroid Cancer
Most thyroid nodules don’t cause any symptoms or need treatment, but some can be malignant and require surgery.
A Growing Epidemic: Type 2 Diabetes on the Rise in Children
Learn why more children are being diagnosed with this condition and how to prevent it. Once upon a time, type 2 diabetes was called adult-onset diabetes because it almost exclusively affected adults. Back then, virtually all children with diabetes had the type 1 form of the disease, but that’s no longer the case. In recent…
Could This Ancient Treatment Cure Diabetes?
Research shows bloodletting could help manage or treat diabetes.
You Have Prediabetes. Now What?
What is prediabetes, and how can you prevent it from becoming type 2 diabetes?
Could It Be Your Thyroid?
A lot of people have thyroid problems and don’t know it. If you’re tired all the time or gaining weight, you could be one of them.