http://phys.org/ en-us Phys.org internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. For the red pigmentation to develop, blood oranges normally require a period of cold as they ripen. The only place to reliably grow them on a commercial scale is in the Sicilian area of Italy around Mount Etna. Here, the combination of sun and cold/sunny days and warm nights provides ideal growing conditions. http://phys.org/news250831162.html Biology Tue, 13 Mar 2012 04:19:45 EST news250831162 Three dialysis patients have received the world's first blood vessels grown in a lab from donated skin cells. It's a key step toward creating a supply of ready-to-use arteries and veins that could be used to treat diabetics, soldiers with damaged limbs, people having heart bypass surgery and others. http://phys.org/news228409720.html Medicine & Health Mon, 27 Jun 2011 16:08:53 EST news228409720 (AP) -- Wait a minute, Doc. You want me to share my appointment with 10 other patients? http://phys.org/news223575330.html Medicine & Health Mon, 02 May 2011 17:15:50 EST news223575330 Much research has been carried out on why diabetics develop complications. Now researchers are asking the question the other way around. They want to know why some diabetic patients do not develop complications. What is it that protects them? The PROLONG study could provide the answer. http://phys.org/news214828582.html Medicine & Health Fri, 21 Jan 2011 10:36:31 EST news214828582 New research has found one of the smallest entities in the human genome, micro-RNA, could increase the risk of limb amputation in diabetic patients who have poor blood flow. http://phys.org/news214054096.html Medicine & Health Wed, 12 Jan 2011 11:28:59 EST news214054096 A team of researchers from several collaborating Baylor University research centers and from Japan's Okayama Graduate School of Medicine have found a way to more consistently isolate pancreatic islet cells from brain dead donors using ductal injection (DI), a process that immediately cools donor islet cells at the injection site. The more successful islet isolation process resulted in the three type 1-diabetes patients, who received islet cell transplants, becoming insulin independent. http://phys.org/news194804009.html Medicine & Health Thu, 03 Jun 2010 17:13:43 EST news194804009 (PhysOrg.com) -- Disease remedies using plant products fill the market, but most have not been tested well enough to be able to assure patients that they really work or that they are safe. Here is what is known about a few products that are often of interest to patients with diabetes. http://phys.org/news194717409.html Medicine & Health Wed, 02 Jun 2010 17:40:02 EST news194717409 Scientists are reporting development and successful testing of a sensor that can instantly tell whether someone has Type I diabetes. It could also be used by emergency room doctors to determine whether a patient has developed diabetic ketoacidosis, a potentially serious complication that happens when diabetics do not take enough insulin. Someday the technology may also be used by diabetics, in their own homes, to determine whether they need more insulin. A report on the sensor appears in ACS' Analytical Chemistry. http://phys.org/news193572754.html Chemistry Thu, 20 May 2010 11:13:19 EST news193572754 A research team led by a Michigan State University professor has discovered a link between diabetes and bone marrow nerve damage that may help treat one of the disease's most common and potentially blindness-causing complications. http://phys.org/news182000777.html Medicine & Health Wed, 06 Jan 2010 12:10:07 EST news182000777 Diabetes mellitus-associated coronary artery disease (CAD) is assuming epidemic proportions, especially in western countries. Both coronary revascularization and medical management have improved tremendously over the last decade and the respective role in the diabetic population is not well defined. This aspect was investigated in the BARI 2D study*. http://phys.org/news170942254.html Medicine & Health Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:00:02 EST news170942254 Results from a large, international, randomised, controlled trial have shown that there is a strong link between diabetics who have an abnormal heart rhythm (atrial fibrillation) and an increased risk of other heart-related problems and death. The findings are published in Europe's leading cardiology journal, the European Heart Journal [1] today (Thursday 12 March). http://phys.org/news156060407.html Medicine & Health Thu, 12 Mar 2009 07:07:18 EST news156060407 As the incidence of obesity-induced type 2 diabetes mellitus continues to increase worldwide, medical research indicates that surgery to reduce obesity can completely eliminate all manifestations of diabetes. In a study published in the March 2009 issue of The American Journal of Medicine, investigators analyzed 621 studies from 1990 to April of 2006, which showed that 78.1% of diabetic patients had complete resolution and diabetes was improved or resolved in 86.6% of patients as the result of bariatric surgery. The primary risk factor for type 2 diabetes is obesity, and 90% of all patients with type 2 diabetes are overweight or obese. http://phys.org/news155282846.html Medicine & Health Tue, 03 Mar 2009 06:08:23 EST news155282846 Researchers in one of the external groups of the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (IGC), in Portugal, have discovered a novel mechanism which regulates the process whereby new blood vessels are formed and wounds heal, including chronic wounds, such as those found in diabetic patients and those suffering from morbid obesity. These findings, by Sérgio Dias and his team, are to appear in the new issue of the journal PLoS ONE, and have implications for the development of new therapeutic approaches to healing damaged blood vessels and building new ones. http://phys.org/news146234032.html Medicine & Health Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:33:52 EST news146234032