News tagged with disease diabetes
Eradicating dangerous bacteria may cause permanent harm
In the zeal to eliminate dangerous bacteria, it is possible that we are also permanently killing off beneficial bacteria as well, posits Martin Blaser, MD, Frederick H. King Professor of Medicine, professor of Microbiology ...
Aug 24, 2011 |
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URI scientist discovers 54 beneficial compounds in pure maple syrup
University of Rhode Island researcher Navindra Seeram has discovered 34 new beneficial compounds in pure maple syrup and confirmed that 20 compounds discovered last year in preliminary research play a key role in human health.
Mar 30, 2011 |
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Scalable amounts of liver and pancreas precursor cells created using new stem cell production method
Scientists in Canada have overcome a key research hurdle to developing regenerative treatments for diabetes and liver disease with a technique to produce medically useful amounts of endoderm cells from human pluripotent stem ...
Dec 02, 2011 |
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New device holds promise of making blood glucose testing easier for patients with diabetes
People with diabetes could be helped by a new type of self-monitoring blood glucose sensor being developed by Arizona State University engineers and clinicians at Mayo Clinic in Arizona.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Mar 15, 2011 |
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Newly identified cell population key to immune response
Scientists from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute have identified the key immune cell population responsible for regulating the body's immune response.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 06, 2011 |
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Chemists make discovery that may lead to drug treatment possibilities for Alzheimer's
UC Santa Barbara scientists have made a discovery that has the potential for use in the early diagnosis and eventual treatment of plaque-related diseases such as Alzheimer's disease and Type 2 diabetes. Their ...
Feb 10, 2011 |
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Searching for the soul of the genome (w/ Video)
The discovery that a "gene desert" on chromosome 9 was a hotspot for coronary artery disease (CAD) risk was among the highlights of findings produced recently by genome-wide association studies, which compare the genomes ...
Feb 09, 2011 |
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Licorice root found to contain anti-diabetic substance
It provides the raw material for liquorice candy, calms the stomach and alleviates diseases of the airways: liquorice root. Chosen as the "Medicinal plant 2012", the root has been treasured in traditional healing since ancient ...
Apr 17, 2012 |
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New insights into insulin resistance could lead to better drugs for diabetics
Research published in the October Molecular and Cellular Biology moves us closer to developing drugs that could mitigate diabetes.
Oct 21, 2011 |
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Insulin could be Alzheimer's therapy
A low dose of insulin has been found to suppress the expression in the blood of four precursor proteins involved in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease, according to new clinical research by University ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Apr 01, 2011 |
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Diabetes belt identified in southern United States
In the 1960s, a group of U.S. states with high age-adjusted stroke mortality defined a "stroke belt." Until recently, geographic patterns of diabetes had not been specifically characterized in the same manner. In an article ...
Mar 08, 2011 |
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Adipose cells and breast cancer -- a dangerous combination
Apart from its direct effect on health (such as cardiovascular diseases and diabetes), obesity is increasingly suspected of playing a role in the prognosis of breast cancer and, in particular, its propensity ...
Apr 05, 2011 |
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'Healthy' patients at high risk of cardiac death identified
(PhysOrg.com) -- The way the heart responds to an early beat is predictive of cardiac death, especially for people with no conventional markers of cardiovascular disease, according to new research from Washington University ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Feb 14, 2011 |
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Study: 50-year-old with diabetes dies 6 yrs sooner
A 50-year-old with diabetes dies six years sooner than someone without the disease, and not just from a heart attack or a stroke, new research suggests.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Mar 02, 2011 |
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Recycling of Alzheimer's proteins could be key to new treatments
The formation of abnormal strands of protein called amyloid fibrils -- associated with two dozen diseases ranging from Alzheimer's to type-2 diabetes -- may not be permanent and irreversible as previously ...
May 25, 2011 |
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