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Diabetes Center Helps Young Patients in Hard-to-Reach Communities

Barnstable Brown Diabetes Center's traveling pediatric clinics are still going strong with quarterly visits in three different eastern Kentucky communities – Monticello, Barbourville and Pikeville.

Barnstable Brown Diabetes Center Names New Acting Director

Simon Fisher, M.D., Ph.D., has been appointed acting director of the Barnstable Brown Diabetes Center (BBDC). Fisher is taking over for John Fowlkes, M.D., who has served as director of the center since 2015.

Research Supports Multidisciplinary Approach for Pediatric Diabetes Management

Research from the UK College of Medicine and Barnstable Brown Diabetes Center found high rates post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms in a group of pediatric patients with Type 1 diabetes.

Joey Fatone Picks UK’s Barnstable Brown on ‘Celebrity Wheel of Fortune’

*NSYNC’S Joey Fatone is spinning his luck for UK HealthCare’s Barnstable Brown Diabetes Center during an upcoming episode of “Celebrity Wheel of Fortune.” Fatone has been a faithful attendee through the years of the star-studded Barnstable Brown Derby Eve Gala.

UK Study Highlights the Importance of Signaling Molecule in Obesity

Recent work from the University of Kentucky College of Medicine published in Cell Press discusses an essential signaling pathway that causes metabolic dysfunction including insulin resistance and obesity.

UK Study Finds Time-Restricted Eating May Reduce Diabetes-Related Hypertension

Time-restricted eating, a routine in which eating is limited to a specific window each day, helped prevent and improve diabetes-related nocturnal hypertension in mice.

CHET Announces Pilot Grant Awardees

UK's Center for Health Equity Transformation (CHET) has awarded Health Equity Pilot Grants to researchers in the College of Agriculture, Food and Environment whose research is aimed at identifying, reducing and eliminating health disparities.

UK Research on Beige Fat Formation for Improved Glucose Metabolism Highlighted by NIDDK

Research led by Dr. Philip Kern was recently highlighted by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.

Young Patients at Barnstable Brown Diabetes Center See Smiling Faces Despite Masks

Staff members at UK HealthCare’s Barnstable Brown Diabetes Center (BBDC) found a unique way to ease anxiety as young patients and families return to in-person clinic visits.

UK Researcher’s Work Included in 'Best of Cell Metabolism 2020' Collection

A paper by Barbara Nikolajczyk, Ph.D., professor of Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences and associate director for Translational Research in Diabetes at the University of Kentucky, has been included in “Best of Cell Metabolism 2020.” The paper focuses on age-associated inflammation.

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