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Managing diabetes is a year-round challenge for anyone living with the disease. The challenge is even greater for underserved and uninsured people who often don’t have easy access to the care they need to manage their diabetes.

Their inability to effectively manage their diabetes puts them at significantly higher risk for long-term complications, including kidney failure, amputations and blindness.

Clarus Therapeutics, Inc., a men’s health specialty pharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of REXTORO ( (Testosterone Undecanoate), an oral testosterone (T) replacement product, today presented Phase 3 clinical data from two studies that support the safety and efficacy of REXTORO for T-replacement therapy in men with hypogonadism. These results are being presented from 1-3 p.m.

Biocom, the association for the Southern California life science community, and the San Diego International Airport Art Program announce the return of the cell culture exhibit, a showcase of art from microscopic research contributing to life-changing breakthroughs taking place in the Southern California region.

NovaDigm Therapeutics, a company developing innovative vaccines for fungal and bacterial infections, today announced that it has acquired the rights, in four separate transactions, to three well-studied Candida vaccine antigens, significantly bolstering the Company’s Candida vaccine pipeline.

The Palos Verdes Peninsula Coordinating Council presented the Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute (LA BioMed) with its Community Service Award on May 22, an annual honor it gives to an organization with programs that “greatly benefit the community.”

The Council, formed in 1956, provides programs of interest to the community and publishes an updated calendar of nonprofit events as a service the community. It has been presenting the Community Service Award to local organizations since 1961.

The rates of community-onset methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CO-MRSA) varied dramatically among academic medical centers in California, New York, Illinois and North Carolina, suggesting there is not a uniform change in the “national epidemic” of the “superbug” that has generated extensive public health concern over the past decade, according to a new study.

Green tea and its extracts have been widely touted as potential treatments for cancer, as well as several other diseases. But scientists have struggled to explain how the green tea and its extracts may work to reduce the risk of cancer or to slow the growth of cancer cells.

With the rate of chronic kidney disease on the rise among older Americans, researchers seeking to improve patients’ quality of life studied a group of adults undergoing hemodialysis and found their higher rates of depression and anxiety could be associated with their impaired physical exercise capability and reduced daily physical activity, according a new study published online by the Journal of Renal Nutrition.

Expertscape, a service to help patients find the experts they need to consult on specific medical conditions, recently named Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh, MD, MPH, PhD, a Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute (LA BioMed) lead researcher, the world’s No. 1 expert on end-stage kidney, or renal, disease.

Expertscape says it objectively identifies the “most knowledgeable and experienced doctors” by surveying their research publications and determining who has the greatest expertise in a specific condition.

Loren Miller, MD, a Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute (LA BioMed) lead researcher, is the senior author of a published study that will receive the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) Award for Publication Excellence at its annual conference in Anaheim on June 7.