When working with communities to promote a healthy weight, researchers and advocates should integrate cultural values and consider factors that influence eating, activity and body weight — including those that may not appear directly related.

Krewe du Sante, founded by a group of Tulane residents in 2014, organizes the annual HOPfest fundraiser to benefit an HIV outpatient program.

Doctors have long known that men with low testosterone are at greater risk for developing type 2 diabetes. For the first time, researchers have identified how testosterone helps men regulate blood sugar by triggering key signaling mechanisms in islets, clusters of cells within the pancreas that produce insulin. The findings, co-authored by Tulane University researchers, are published in the journal Cell Metabolism.