Prof Bloom, who heads Imperial's diabetes, endocrinology and metabolism division, said the chip could provide an alternative to "gross surgery".

BBC: News

The new recommendations, led by task-force chair Dr Lars Berglund (University of California, Davis), are published in the September 2012 issue of the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism.

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In a paper in Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism they argue that insulin resistance is another side-effect of metabolic syndrome whose cause is lipid molecules poisoning tissues in which they are not supposed to be present in large quantities.

ECONOMIST: Metabolic syndrome

Amy Egan, deputy director for safety in the FDA's Division of Metabolism and Endocrinology Products, says the agency looked at the adverse events reported to determine the scope of the problem.

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