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Unusual outbreak of hypoglycemia
I just read a fascinating -- but very sad -- letter to the editor, published in the New England Journal of Medicine this week, titled An Unusual Outbreak of Hypoglycemia.
It seems that early last year, 150 nondiabetic patients were admitted to hospitals in Singapore in less than five months with severe hypoglycemia. For folks with diabetes, hypoglycemia is no big deal, but for the physicians caring for these 150 people without diabetes, it was indeed: 4 of these men died. Yes, men -- all but...
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