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Obesity is known to be one of the main causes why people begin to develop a host of other conditions and also become vulnerable to the effects of external pathogens. For instance, those with too many extra pounds may suffer from diabetes, heart conditions, a lack of physical condition and muscle tone, as well as catc... |
5 November 2009
15:31 GMT |
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Diabetes is one of the most widespread diseases in the world, and one that can lead to a large number of complications, including conditions of the heart, obesity, blindness, diabetic ulcers and even death. Therefore, finding a cure for it is one of the main goals of medicine today. Experts from the Harvard Universit... |
1 September 2009
02:52 GMT |
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Scientists have known for a long time that a causal connection exists between diabetes and obesity, but new drugs and therapies developed in the lab have always focused on treating either one of the two, and not both at the same time. However, as Reuters reports, a new medicine apparently has the ability to make lab ... |
28 August 2009
15:11 GMT |
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Diabetes is a severe disorder, which is characterized by insufficient insulin production in the body, or the inability for the hormone to be properly absorbed. This results in high levels of glucose (sugars) in the blood, which lead to severe complications, including blindness, vascular disease, and death, to name bu... |
25 August 2009
03:28 GMT |
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Patients with an insurmountable fear of needles can now rejoice. In the near future, the association between hospitals and needles could be laid to waste, thanks to a new medical device recently created. The instrument is in fact a patch laden with microneedles, which patients cannot feel. They can be used to deliver... |
20 August 2009
06:45 GMT |
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One of the main causes for blindness in the United States is retinopathy, a degenerative eye condition that shows signs of progressive vision loss, until ultimately all sight disappears completely. However, there may still be hope for the countless patients suffering from the disease, as experts from the University o... |
3 July 2009
04:33 GMT |
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Some time ago, researchers figured out that a specific class of anti-diabetes prescription drugs, known as thiazolidinediones (TZD), came with the risk of patients developing heart complications after use. The reason why this happened remained a mystery until recently, when a team of scientists managed to understand ... |
23 June 2009
04:02 GMT |
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The concept of lifestyle medicine is a relatively new one, unwillingly created by Norman Cousins, who was a writer and a news magazine editor in the 1970s. Having been diagnosed with an autoimmune disease, the then-layman prescribed himself a diet consisting mainly of good mood, lots of laughter, and funny videos. Af... |
18 April 2009
05:01 GMT |
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In a new scientific study conducted on innocent mice, researchers have discovered that the eating habits of the mother rat considerably influence the genetic traits of its offspring, giving new meaning to the expression “a mother eats for two.” The find may notably influence doctors' pieces of advice... |
14 April 2009
09:51 GMT |
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Researchers from the Medical College of Georgia have just recently made a very disturbing find, when they have established that people suffering from schizophrenia are at a higher risk of developing type II diabetes and subsequent complications than others. The conclusion of their new study is based on a research co... |
31 March 2009
10:28 GMT |
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A number of scientific experiments currently underway in several hospitals around the world, including locations in the US, Europe, Asia and Latin America, are using immature adult stem cells in innovative type II diabetes therapies. The experts conducting these investigations hope that the cells will soon have the a... |
30 March 2009
07:36 GMT |
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While tobacco is most of the time advertised as a destructive plant, not many people know that it contains substances that can be successfully used to fight several wide-spread medical conditions, such as a few autoimmune and inflammatory diseases, including diabetes. Just recently, a team of experts from a number of... |
19 March 2009
10:59 GMT |
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Studies conducted on twins have evidenced the fact that an environmental factor may also be at work in the development of diabetes in children who are genetically-predisposed to developing the disease. Researchers at the Peninsula Medical School, in Plymouth, the UK, have established that viral infections, such as th... |
6 March 2009
06:05 GMT |
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Psychologists at the University of Utah have recently discovered that women who are “bound” in strained and stressful marriages are very likely to start exhibiting signs of depression and high blood pressure, two of the symptoms most commonly associated with the emergence of heart diseases, diabetes, and ... |
5 March 2009
04:58 GMT |
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Sharon Gerecht, an assistant professor of chemical and molecular engineering at JHU's Whiting School of Engineering, is the proud beneficiary of some 460,000 dollars, which she has received in order to continue her research of transforming stem cells into blood vessels, a technology that could potentially help d... |
19 February 2009
08:13 GMT |
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All women striving to achieve a stick-thin figure can now stop torturing themselves with all kinds of diets and workout regimes. A new study has revealed, as reported by Fox news, that women with a pear-shaped figure, the likes of which singers Jennifer Lopez and Beyonce have made famous, are healthier than those wit... |
8 January 2009
06:32 GMT |
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Scientists from St. Michael's Hospital and the University of Toronto, coordinated by Dr. David Jenkins, studied the impact that a diet rich in nuts, lentils and beans might have on one's health, compared to a high cereal-fiber diet. The experts were particularly concerned with improving the physical conditi... |
17 December 2008
05:04 GMT |
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Australian researchers at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), in Sydney, published a new scientific study in the journal Archives of Ophthalmology, saying that the number of people suffering from presbyopia – a stiffening of the eye lenses or of the muscle operating these lenses – will drastically i... |
9 December 2008
03:23 GMT |
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New scientific research points to the fact that diabetes sufferers who eat fish dishes at least twice a week have a much lower incidence of kidney disease. Though regularly doctors advise patients to limit the amounts of proteins they ingest, the new UK study seems to indicate that the source of the proteins is the p... |
28 November 2008
05:55 GMT |
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Human stem cell research has been a controversial subject all around the globe for many years, because of the fact that the harvesting of viable stem cells has to be conducted on viable human embryos. Religious and anti-abortion groups say that this is a crime, as the embryos would have otherwise grown to become adul... |
6 November 2008
13:41 GMT |
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Insulin pumps are a far more effective method for diabetes sufferers to take their insulin than multiple shots per day. In fact, that was the main reason why they were created in the first place. Now, doctors and psychologists will start a two-year long study, aimed at understanding exactly how the pump influences th... |
5 November 2008
08:37 GMT |
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West African cooking habits apparently hold more secrets than meets the eye, scientists say. One of the most extensively used spices, a distant relative of ginger, called Aframomum melegueta, has been known for a long time to have therapeutic properties. Now, health experts say that the spice can be used to prevent o... |
31 October 2008
04:33 GMT |
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Scientists discovered that the antioxidant melanin, which normally generates eye and skin color, is somehow involved in developing obesity. Analyses found increased quantities of the substance being produced in fat cells pertaining to the bodies of people suffering from obesity. Doctors say that drugs mimicking the e... |
30 October 2008
07:54 GMT |
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Over the last decade, diabetes has become one of the most widespread diseases in the United States, and predictions say that, by 2050, the total number of Americans with the affliction will have soared from the current 11 million, to a whopping 29 million affected. The statistics show that, while the incidence of dia... |
28 October 2008
03:39 GMT |
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It's common knowledge that sports, in general, make for increased metabolic rates and better overall fitness of the human body. Regular exercises, done daily, or at least 3 or 4 times per week, can help people's bodies become more efficient in the way they burn fats. This process, the human metabolism, is w... |
27 October 2008
07:20 GMT |
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Health and fitness experts have emphasized the importance of working out at the office on several occasions before. A few minutes of exercises each day could help drastically reduce the risks of employees developing lifestyle diseases, such as diabetes, hypertension, heart conditions and some types of cancer, due to ... |
25 October 2008
03:34 GMT |
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Tests done on animal models revealed that a formerly unknown molecule – interleukin-6 – plays a substantial role in fighting diabetes and obesity. Ironically, until now, researchers believed that this molecule caused the diseases, given the fact that it was discovered in chronically high quantities in all... |
20 October 2008
05:09 GMT |
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People suffering from Type 2 diabetes are at much higher risk of contracting tuberculosis (TB) than the rest, a new study revealed. This discovery is very alarming, as, according to World Health Organization (WHO) estimates, more than 180 million people in the world today suffer from diabetes, with the number schedul... |
15 October 2008
05:44 GMT |
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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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