News media sound bites were ricocheting around the Internet last week suggesting that perhaps type 2 diabetes is an intestinal disorder that can be cured by surgery.
As Dr. Bill Quick pointed out in a recent blog, most of the popular accounts of the disease were overblown; Dr. Quick calls them "another piece of public relations flackery." Like so many reports of new medical advances, these reports in the news media were mostly based on a press release from the hospital where the research...
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