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Rates of type 2 diabetes among those younger than 18 increased by 77% during the pandemic, research led by Sheela Magge, a pediatric endocrinology expert at Johns Hopkins, and colleagues has shown. Magge says reasons for the increase may be …

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Type 2 diabetes, often associated with obesity, is turning up much more frequently in kids since the Covid-19 pandemic began. That’s according to Sheela Magge, a childhood diabetes expert at Johns Hopkins, and colleagues. Sheela Magge: We compared the first …

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StomachSim is the name of a computational model developed by Johns Hopkins engineer Rajit Mittal and colleagues to help predict how well oral medicines might work. Mittal says the anatomy of the stomach itself must be accounted for. And the …

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You’ve probably heard that you should always sit upright when you take a pill for the quickest metabolism, right? Now results from a stomach modeling program called StomachSim, developed by Johns Hopkins engineer Rajat Mittal and colleagues, says there is …

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When you’re in pain and you reach for a pill do you think about how your stomach is going to handle it? Now a new model developed by Johns Hopkins engineer Rajat Mittal and colleagues helps predict how long you …

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A new computer model of the stomach and how well pills dissolve in it has been developed by engineers at Johns Hopkins, led by Rajat Mittal. Mittal says work so far with the model, called ‘StomachSim,’ has opened his eyes …

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In this podcast, we begin a series about the Johns Hopkins Evidence-Based Practice Tools. Nursing Inquiry Coordinator, Nadine Rosenblum, and Evidence-based Practice Coordinator, Madeleine Whalen, begin by discussing Appendix A – the PET Process. They cover the importance of project planning and …

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