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Artificial intelligence
AI-powered diabetes prevention program shows promise
Published Oct 27, 2025
Hopkins research suggests personalized push notifications powered by AI can help lower one's risk of diabetes
A pill can provide all the benefits of bariatric surgery
Health
Diabetes treatment sans surgery
Published Fall 2025
A Hopkins gastroenterologist develops a pill that mimics the health benefits of bariatric surgery / Johns Hopkins Magazine
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Research in action
'Big-world data, small-town values'
Published Sept 30, 2025
Community bonds and NIH funding have helped scientists at a Johns Hopkins research field center in Hagerstown, Maryland, collect some of the world's best population-based data on cardiovascular disease risk
Joshua Doloff
Research Matters
Engineering the future of diabetes treatment
Published March 18, 2025
Biomedical engineer Joshua Doloff uses federal funding to pioneer immunotherapies that could free diabetes patients from insulin dependence
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Health+Well-being
The pros, cons, and unknowns of popular weight-loss drugs
Published Jan 11, 2024
Are in-demand drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy safe and effective? A Johns Hopkins expert explains
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COVID-19 Impacts
Type 2 diabetes cases in children on the rise during COVID-19 pandemic
Published Aug 25, 2022
Johns Hopkins researchers cite environmental changes caused by the pandemic, including adapting routines and less physical activity, as likely contributors to the increase in type 2 diabetes cases among children
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Public health
"Prediabetes" diagnosis less useful in older patients
Published Feb 9, 2021
Study findings show that older adults deemed 'prediabetic' seldom progress to full diabetes, experts support a health strategy focused on making lifestyle changes
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Pediatric health
Non-fasting blood test can help screen youth for pre-diabetes and diabetes
Published Aug 25, 2020
Study suggests the hemoglobin A1c test can identify youth at high risk of developing Type 2 diabetes and associated cardiovascular problems
Health risks of sleep apnea
Published Sept 5, 2017
Study finds increases in blood sugar, fat levels, stress hormones, blood pressure in patients with obstructive sleep apnea / Johns Hopkins Medicine
Diabetes
Episodes of extremely low blood sugar put diabetics at increased risk for death
Published March 10, 2017
Within three years of dangerously low blood sugar episode requiring emergency department visit, one-third of those in study died / School of Public Health