Fighting Diabetes by Interfering with Glucose Production in the Liver (AUDIO)
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People with type 2 diabetes are resistant to insulin, and that results in the maufacture of too much glucose in the liver causing blood sugar levels to rise. Many of the drugs used to treat the disorder are designed to make the body more sensitive to insulin, but researchers from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis seem to have found another way to potentially control blood sugar: by slowing the production of glucose in the liver. Jim Dryden reports...
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