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It's no longer a secret to anyone that people are sicker now than they were but a few decades ago. Obese and overweight individuals have become the rule, rather than the exception, and the trend appears to be accelerating. But, while one may argue that everyone should be free to do whatever they want with their ... |
10 May 2010
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In a new series of scientific investigations, researchers determined that obese men tended to exhibit much lower levels of the hormone testosterone than average-weight males. The correlation was even stronger in the case of individuals suffering from diabetes, where 50 percent of the test subjects exhibited the hormo... |
4 May 2010
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Controlling the symptoms and effects of diabetes is something that patients suffering from this metabolic disorder need to do every single day of their lives. Their bodies are unable to produce the hormone insulin, which is used to metabolize sugars (glucose), and so they need to get it from elsewhere. Usually, they ... |
2 March 2010
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Scientists have discovered in a new scientific investigation that older people who tend to nap a lot are at a higher risk of developing type II diabetes. The investigation, which was conducted in China, also showed that excessive sleeping causes impaired fasting glucose. Details of the new study appear in the March 1... |
1 March 2010
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A team of German scientists from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen (LMU) has recently developed a new animal model for studying the effects of type II diabetes, when they genetically-engineered pigs to exhibit symptoms that are associated with the condition in humans. This approach is tremendously important ... |
27 February 2010
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Unfortunately, over the past couple of decades, the number of infants that grow to be chubby while children, and then develop into obese teens has increased considerably. This is especially the case in the developed world, where highly refined foods, poor parental control, and peer pressure force many youngsters to c... |
12 February 2010
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With the rate of obesity currently spiraling in the developed world, one of the most common complications for this condition is the development of type II diabetes. This is a very serious condition, which needs to be regulated via constant insulin shots, but it also creates a number of ill-effects of its own. One of ... |
11 February 2010
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In a new development, it appears that quitting smoking can have adverse effects on people's health, a new study shows. Experts say that, while smoking is known to be tied to an increased risk of diabetes, quitting the habit may actually increase the risk of people developing the condition in the short term. Givi... |
5 January 2010
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Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) announced yesterday that they managed to create a special gel to promote blood vessel growth. The substance is very rich in enzymes and growth agents, and encourages new circulatory systems to form around an affected area, its creators say. The work, wh... |
22 December 2009
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Once you get diabetes, the only possible way to survive is to use specific drugs, or to take daily shots of insulin, depending on the form of the disease. But a new study shows that popular types of diabetes drugs actually put people at increased risks of heart failure and even death. Sulphonylureas and metformin, tw... |
4 December 2009
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Over the past years, policies to curve people's rights to do whatever they want with their bodies have been set in place in the United States. Anti-smoking campaigns and various smoking bans have made many Americans quit the habit, but a new research suggests that the increase the public health regulators were e... |
3 December 2009
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The latest scientific estimates on the strain that diabetes, as a disease, will place on the US healthcare system over the medium-term have revealed that costs will more than triple within 25 years, while the number of patients will reach double its current value, Reuters reports. The viability of Medicare, as well a... |
27 November 2009
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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