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Mice came through for researchers once again, revealing the original stem cells that eventually evolve into fat cells. According to the experiment, mice lacking normal fat tissues can be given such a tissue by implementing them with these newly-found stem cells. Scientists at the Rockefeller University (RU) have been... |
13 October 2008
10:08 GMT |
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French researchers have identified a new cell receptor that they think acts like a switch in causing multiple small blood vessels to expand and spiral out of control. This is the major cause for blindness throughout the world, especially in retinopathy cases, when severely inflated veins can cause the retina to separ... |
7 October 2008
06:47 GMT |
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Retina receptors (RR) are very small parts of the human eye that play a significant role in vision. When affected by diseases such as diabetes, complications may cause severe vision disorders and even blindness. However, Raju Rajala, Ph.D., the leader of the research team that conducted this most recent study, believ... |
1 October 2008
06:27 GMT |
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If you have type 2 diabetes it would be a good idea to walk an extra 45 minutes each day, says a new study showing that exercise can keep the blood sugar levels under control, thus limiting the effects of this terrible disease. Type 2 diabetes is a non-insulin-dependent disease that can be managed through dietary mod... |
28 July 2008
09:37 GMT |
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Injections are no fun, regardless of what some might say, but that could soon change with the invention of the painless 'microneedle', a device that works much in the same way as the needle of mosquitoes while sucking blood. In the case of the aforementioned insects, the whole process consists of blood bein... |
18 July 2008
05:07 GMT |
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According to the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology the increase in the number of men suffering from infertility could be directly linked to the increasing number of men suffering from diabetes. Apparently, the DNA damage in sperm cells of men with diabetes is harder to repair by specialized genes,... |
9 July 2008
08:29 GMT |
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Diabetes is a very serious disease that, if left untreated, can have life threatening consequences. And even when treated, on the long term its effects can still lead to severe complications on one or more systems or parts of the body. Many of the processes taking place during the release of the insulin hormone, whic... |
2 July 2008
06:26 GMT |
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Diabetes is the fourth leading cause of global death by disease, currently affecting around 246 million people worldwide. There are three main types, the most widespread being the so-called type 2 diabetes, formerly known as non-insulin dependent. For a very long time now, scientists have been struggling to come up w... |
7 June 2008
07:06 GMT |
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Diabetes is one of the most widespread diseases of the moment, a metabolism disorder that has grown to reflect some of the deepest vices of modern lifestyle. Type two diabetes, which accounts for the vast majority (about 90%) of all diabetes cases, is closely linked with obesity and physical inactivity. At the moment... |
24 May 2008
05:55 GMT |
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Who could ever have imagined that getting rich was such a terrible thing? According to recent research, a wealthy lifestyle is actually the worst thing that could possible happen to us, so you'd better stop playing the lottery and wish you really didn't get that promotion at work, because living the good li... |
22 May 2008
05:55 GMT |
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Since our health really is - or at least, it should be - our most precious asset, we're all likely to feel extremely protective when it comes to our own bodies, so much so in fact that to some extent, we all believe in small "superstitions", things we acquired or were taught, various myths about certain aspects ... |
13 May 2008
04:55 GMT |
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One third of the adults smoke and 4 million people die annually because of diseases provoked by tobacco smoking, one person every 8 seconds. By 2020, smoking will kill more humans than AIDS, tuberculosis, maternal mortality, car accidents, suicides and murder. Smoking has been linked with over 50 issues, over 25 bein... |
12 December 2007
05:37 GMT |
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Now we know how the Aztecs had such vigorous hearts to be pulled out from the chests of the unfortunate victims as an offering to the gods. Their cardiac secret was salba or chia, a grain related to mint. A new Canadian research suggests that people with type 2 diabetes could decrease their cardiovascular risk by con... |
23 November 2007
05:49 GMT |
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With all the advanced techniques and technologies, in the end we have to go back to nature to find protection against superbugs, bacteria that have developed resistance against antibiotics. A team at the University of Manchester led by Professor Andrew Boulton has managed to eradicate in 13 diabetic patients the supe... |
29 October 2007
07:05 GMT |
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A recent research has showed that skinny people can have a lot of visceral fat, the kind that is stored inside the abdomen, and which is the most dangerous, causing diabetes and other diseases. In 2005, Katherine M. Flegal, a researcher at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, made a statistical analysis of... |
15 September 2007
04:18 GMT |
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Junk food and a sedentary lifestyle have inflicted many diseases that have taken a heavy toll worldwide. If we consider the rapid evolution and spread of the adult sugary diabetes (type II) from the last year, we can consider this the disease of the 21st century. The specialists are already worried about the amazingl... |
13 September 2007
04:56 GMT |
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Gila monster looks like hell and bites the same. This lizard and its cousins, the monitor lizards are the only venomous known lizards (would it be a surprise to know that snakes evolved from their ancestors?). Exenatide, a synthetic chemical imitating a compound encountered in the venomous saliva of the Gila monster ... |
13 July 2007
03:01 GMT |
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Pumpkins could be more than Halloween bogies. It seems that they could also frighten the diabetes as chemicals encountered in pumpkin could potentially replace or at least drastically decrease the daily insulin injections, the lifelong nightmare of so many diabetics. And their number is of 230 million, almost 6 % of ... |
9 July 2007
04:13 GMT |
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"You're sweet" cannot have sexual connotations. Cause when sugar from your blood cannot be stored in the tissues, that's diabetes. Besides the vast amount of general health problems induced by diabetes, including hearing and kidney disease, nerve damage and blindness, there is also impotence in men (due to... |
4 May 2007
17:11 GMT |
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Erectile dysfunction (or impotence), connected with retrograde ejaculation and the loss of seminal emission, is a well-known effect of diabetes in men. A new research at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, investigated the molecular mechanism that induces erectile dysfunction in diabetes, a step that co... |
16 March 2007
06:50 GMT |
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Now we have finally found out why some people can be registered as qualified skunks and why some of our workmates subdue us daily to olfactive tortures!Look why: Phthalates are esters widely used for over 50 years in everything from plastics (to turn them flexible), PVC, soaps, cosmetics, shampoos, lotions, lubricant... |
16 March 2007
06:05 GMT |
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Many obesity and fat related symptoms have been regarded as being aggravated by fat consume, but a new research points to the fact that they are induced in fact by fat. A team from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis shows that belly fat could be an important inflammation promoter in conditions like... |
14 March 2007
10:53 GMT |
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