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Tuesday, 06 January 2009 |
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Medical Condition News Adults with diabetes experience a slowdown in several types of mental processing, which appears early in the disease and persists into old age, according to new research. |
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Saturday, 03 January 2009 |
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Medical Research News Maintaining blood sugar levels, even in the absence of disease, may be an essential strategy for preserving cognitive health, suggests a study published by researchers at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC).The study appeared in the December issue of Annals of Neurology. |
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Friday, 02 January 2009 |
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Medical Research News In a finding that could significantly influence the way type 1 diabetes is treated, researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have developed a technique for transplanting insulin-producing pancreatic cells that causes only a minimal immune... |
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Wednesday, 31 December 2008 |
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Medical Research News Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine have identified a usual gene variant that appears to influence people's risk of developing high blood pressure, according to the results of a study being published online Dec. |
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Monday, 22 December 2008 |
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Medical Research News A study published by the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA ) on 16 December 2008 has found that those with type 2 diabetes who had a diet high in low-glycemic foods like nuts, beans and lentils had greater improvement in glycemic control and risk factors for... |
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Monday, 22 December 2008 |
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Medical Research News Scientists have found that genetic variation at the hexokinase-1 gene is linked to variation in the blood concentration of glycated hemoglobin, an index of long-term blood glucose concentration extensively used in the follow-up of diabetes patients. |
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Friday, 19 December 2008 |
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Medical Research News Human parechovirus is a safe virus which is encountered by most infants and displays few symptoms.Suspected of triggering type 1 diabetes in susceptible people, research methods need to take this "silent" virus into consideration. |
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Thursday, 18 December 2008 |
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Medical Research News The naturally high levels of leptin in diabetic patients may decrease the effectiveness of drug-eluting stents used to treat heart blockages, but using a chemical that differs from the one generally used to coat stents could counteract this effect. |
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Tuesday, 16 December 2008 |
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Medical Condition News Patients with the skin disease psoriasis appear more likely to have higher levels of leptin (a hormone assembled by fat cells that may contribute to fatness and other metabolic abnormalities) than persons without psoriasis, according to a report in the December issue of... |
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Monday, 15 December 2008 |
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Medical Condition News Researchin the currentissue of the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine is the first to show the full clinical picture of comorbid conditions associated with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), count their frequency of occurrence and disclose their possible interrelationships. |
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Monday, 15 December 2008 |
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Medical Research News A study in the Dec. |
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Monday, 15 December 2008 |
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Drug Trials Paliperidone palmitate, an investigational long-acting therapy (LAT) demonstrated statistically essential symptom control compared with placebo according to the results of a 13-week study.Statistical significance was evidenced at all doses tested (25, 100, and 150 mg equivalent [eq. |
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Thursday, 11 December 2008 |
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Child Health News Children with diabetes are at an increased risk for developing eating disorders and researchers require to know if it's their disease or treatment that's to blame. |
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Thursday, 11 December 2008 |
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Medical Research News Type 1 (juvenile) diabetes and celiac disease appear to share a regular genetic origin, scientists at the University of Cambridge and Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, have affirmed. |
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Tuesday, 09 December 2008 |
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Devices/Technology deCODE genetics has announced the discovery by an international consortium of scientists from deCODE and major European and US academic institutions of a single letter variation in the human genome (SNP) that is associated with increased fasting glucose levels and risk of type 2... |
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Tuesday, 09 December 2008 |
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Pharmaceutical News Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. |
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Tuesday, 09 December 2008 |
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Women's Health News Researchers from Boston University's Slone Epidemiology Center have found that reducing time spent watching television and increasing time spent walking briskly or engaged in vigorous physical activity may decrease the incidence of type 2 diabetes in African-American women. |
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Tuesday, 09 December 2008 |
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Medical Condition News Based on projected increases in the prevalence of diabetes, the number of people with diabetes-related retinal disease, with glaucoma and with cataracts is estimated to increase significantly by 2050, according to a report in the December issue of Archives of Ophthalmology. |
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Tuesday, 09 December 2008 |
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Devices/Technology Solianis has just finalised a test series in which patients with diabetes have worn the first configuration of the multisensor system for non-invasive Continuous Glucose Monitoring at home and at work. |
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Monday, 08 December 2008 |
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Medical Research News Researchers at the University of Warwick have discovered high doses of thiamine - vitamin B1 - can reverse the onset of early diabetic kidney disease.Kidney disease, or diabetic nephropathy, develops progressively in patients with type 2 diabetes. |
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Monday, 08 December 2008 |
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Medical Research News Scientists have identified 12 new genes that are somewhat strange bedfellows: Some link gallstones and blood cholesterol levels, others link melatonin and sleep patterns to little increases in glucose levels and larger jumps in the risk of diabetes. |
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Monday, 08 December 2008 |
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Medical Research News Diabetes and high levels of blood sugar may be linked to abnormalities in a person's body clock and sleep patterns, according to a genome-wide association study published today in the journal Nature Genetics. |
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Friday, 05 December 2008 |
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Medical Research News For years, pear-shaped people who carry weight in the thighs and backside have been told they are at lower risk for high blood pressure and heart disease than apple-shaped people who carry fat in the abdomen. |
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Tuesday, 02 December 2008 |
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Drug Trials Genaera Corporation has announced that dosing of subjects has begun in study MSI-1436C-102 (Study 102), the multiple ascending dose Phase 1b study of trodusquemine (MSI-1436) in overweight and obese type 2 diabetics. |
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Friday, 28 November 2008 |
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Medical Research News Researchers have identified a molecule that tells your brain your stomach is full - signaling that it's time to say no to a second piece of pumpkin pie and push back from the Thanksgiving table. |
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Friday, 28 November 2008 |
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Medical Condition News According to a new study, published in the November issue of Diabetes Care , a majority of diabetics avoid physical activity as they worry about exercise-induced hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) and severe consequences including loss of consciousness. |
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Wednesday, 26 November 2008 |
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Medical Condition News People diagnosed with diabetes spend over $4,100 more each year on medical costs than people who don't have diabetes, a gap that increases substantially each year following the first diagnosis, according to a study published online today in the journal Diabetes Care. |
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Wednesday, 26 November 2008 |
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Medical Research News Patients with type 2 diabetes who have poor glycemic control and a certain genetic variation have an increased risk of coronary artery disease, according to a study in the November 26 issue of JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association. |
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Tuesday, 25 November 2008 |
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Medical Research News According to researchers in the U.S. the loss of potassium experienced from taking blood pressure drugs may clarify higher risk of adult diabetes. |
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Tuesday, 25 November 2008 |
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Women's Health News The newest advice to women going through the menopause is eat less, get more active and consider wearing hormone replacement therapy (HRT) skin patches. |
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