Looks at the epidemiology of prediabetes and type 2 diabetes in children, the immune system involvement in obesity and its association with prediabetes and diabetes.
What goes wrong with insulin action in pre-diabetes (i.e. insulin resistance) and how links between the immune and metabolic systems influence insulin resistance.
April 2, 2013
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Dr. Eileen Hutton, associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology and assistant dean of the Midwifery Education Program at McMaster University
Demystifying Medicine
Dr. Eileen Hutton speaks about the timing of umbilical cord clamping.
April 2, 2013
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Dr. Bruce Wainman, associate professor of pathology and molecular medicine and director of the Education Program in Anatomy at McMaster University
Demystifying Medicine
Dr. Bruce Wainman discusses the anatomy involved in fetal and neonatal respiration.
Looks at the long-term health consequences of diabetes, list the therapies that reduce these consequences, describe how diabetes causes some of these consequences.
Discusses evidence for the presence of a medulloblastoma stem cell and activation of developmental signaling pathways may cause this childhood brain tumour.
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