Correct usage of dashes and colons.

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Johnny11

#302758 Mon, 11 Dec 06 10:12 AM

I have got the following sentence:

Diabetes: Are There New Treatments Available?

Is it grammaticali correct? Or would it be accurate to use:

Diabetes – Are There New Treatments Available? or Diabetes - Are There New Treatments Available?

I am a little confused over the use of the hyphen and the em dash in english language. I would appreciate any help.

Thank you in advance.

Johnny11

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Colons, Hyphens

Mister Micawber

#302764 Mon, 11 Dec 06 10:31 AM

In this kind of situation, the m-dash is merely less formal than the colon. Either can be used here. The hyphen, on the other hand, serves only to separate compounded words like early-morning exercise or as a line break between syllables of a single word.

PS: I see this is your first post, Johnny. Welcome to English Forums.