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BATON ROUGE, LA - Dr. William T. Cefalu, executive director of Pennington Biomedical Research Center at LSU, has been selected by the American Diabetes Association (ADA) to participate in an international medical program training physicians in Indonesia and Vietnam.
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BATON ROUGE, LA - Pennington Biomedical Research Center today announced the hiring of Alisha Prather as director of their communications and marketing team.
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New research published in Diabetologia (the journal of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes) shows that diabetes in women is associated with an increased risk of stroke, whereas the data do not show the same association among men. The research is by Dr. Wenhui Zhao (the first author), Dr. Gang Hu and colleagues at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA.
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The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), the most comprehensive survey of the health and nutritional status of the U.S. population is coming to East Baton Rouge Parish, LA beginning on February 26, 2014.
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