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A group of experts at the Brown University says that a special enzyme can be used in mice to reduce rodents' weight gain. At the same time, the animals display an improved metabolism, and show significantly higher insulin efficiency than their peers.
These results are very encouraging, if they could only be app... |
15 November 2011
06:55 GMT |
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A series of new studies appear to demonstrate that behavior interventions can be especially useful for people suffering from diabetes. Many patients leave their blood sugar and insulin levels spiral out of control, which puts them at risk of developing various complications.
Even without these complications, diabe... |
13 October 2011
05:03 GMT |
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One of the primary issues with diabetes is that beta cells in the pancreas – which play a critical role in the production of insulin – are damaged irretrievably. In a new investigation, experts were able to uncover the mechanisms that lead to the development of such cells.
With this remarkable breakthr... |
12 September 2011
05:33 GMT |
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A team of researchers at the University of Michigan has recently finished conducting a new scientific study, which provides a better view into the role that zinc and a protein called amylin play in the development of type II diabetes.
One of the things that experts knew about amylin when the research effort began ... |
1 July 2011
02:49 GMT |
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The fight against juvenile diabetes will only get worse before it starts producing results, investigators say, and this is why engineers at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) are working on creating an artificial pancreas. According to the researchers the closed-loop, synthetic organ will contribute to monito... |
9 June 2011
05:47 GMT |
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A hormone that is produced and secreted by the liver, is one of the causes of insulin resistance in type 2 diabetes patients, found a team of researchers from Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medical Science in Japan.This is the first time that a link between this protein and insulin resistance is found, even t... |
3 November 2010
10:08 GMT |
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Type 1 diabetes patients are dependent on the hormone insulin for their very survival, and now scientists are engaging in an effort to see whether they can make the therapy more effective by adding the hormone leptin to the mix as well. This type of diabetics has abnormally high levels of sugar in their blood stream,... |
11 October 2010
15:01 GMT |
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Kidney failure is a series of disorders which unfortunately appears more and more often in patients. Now experts believe they may have found away to mitigate its effects. Scientists say that one of the main reasons why kidneys today fail more than they dis in the past is because more and more people are suffering fro... |
6 October 2010
03:27 GMT |
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A team of experts has recently been able to produce more data on the correlations that was observed between obesity and infertility in women. According to the new work, it would appear that experts may have previously been mistaken about the causes that led to the two conditions being linked to each other.The new res... |
8 September 2010
06:36 GMT |
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Scientists have found that emodin, a natural product that can be found in several Chinese herbs like Rheum palmatum and Polygonum cuspidatum (actually called Japanese Knotweed, or fleeceflower), can be a type 2 diabetes impact reduction agent.Administrating emodin to mice with diet-induced obesity, had the positive e... |
18 August 2010
02:51 GMT |
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Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine discovered that human insulin-producing beta cell can replicate for at least four weeks in a mouse model of diabetes, thanks to a single stimulatory molecule. Research also gave several molecule combinations that allow human beta cells to replicate and po... |
28 July 2010
06:48 GMT |
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Scientists have recently been able to determine that a clear correlation exists between the body's ability to process and absorb sugar in the blood, and an individual's risk of developing mental disorders. These were found to include schizophrenia and related conditions, as well as mood swings and other suc... |
9 June 2010
07:03 GMT |
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Insulin is a vital chemical for millions of people suffering from diabetes worldwide. The hormone helps these individuals' bodies break down sugars, and allows them to survive. But obtaining insulin is relatively difficult at this point, despite high demand. Researchers at the Helmholtz-Center for Infection Rese... |
27 May 2010
09:02 GMT |
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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
10:00 GMT |
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One of the most cumbersome and inconvenient aspects of diabetes is the fact that patients suffering from advanced forms need to inject insulin into their bloodstream each day. Their own body is unable to produce the hormone, and they cannot survive without it. Delivering insulin has become big business, and many rese... |
5 May 2010
09:05 GMT |
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The hormone insulin is essential for the human body. One of its primary roles is to convert sugars, starches, and other types of food into energy for the entire organism. However, the cells that produce them, called beta-cells and located in the pancreas, can be hindered at times. When this happens, diabetes type I e... |
13 April 2010
02:52 GMT |
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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
08:47 GMT |
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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
03:54 GMT |
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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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As most of you already know, the human body is by default primed to letting you know when you've had enough to eat. But, somehow, this integrated mechanism fails when we eat something that is to our liking, such as our favorite ice cream. A new scientific paper, by experts at the Southwestern University (SU), s... |
14 September 2009
05:36 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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Heavily injured patients in hospitals around the world all have a common enemy in their precarious condition, namely bacterial agents. Strains of microorganisms such as the MRSA can easily invade a person with a weakened immune system, and cause widespread internal damage, or even death. In their struggle to hinder t... |
28 July 2009
16:11 GMT |
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In a surprising turn of events, a team of researchers from the Purdue University has learned that it may not be genes that determine a person's risk of developing obesity, but actually the way in which that person's cells process insulin. During the studies, identical cells were proven to accumulate more or... |
15 April 2009
03:13 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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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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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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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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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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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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We are told that an increased Body Mass Index (BMI) makes us prone to a large array of diseases. But, as it turns out, fat located under the skin, especially on the buttocks, seems to actually decrease the chances of developing type 2 diabetes, as signaled by a new research published in the Cell Metabolism journal an... |
7 May 2008
06:58 GMT |
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Like mother, like son. What your mother ate while pregnant with you is reflected in how you look. So says a Brazilian team who published its research made on rats in the journal "Lipids in Health and Disease." Pregnant and lactating rat females nurtured on a diet of hydrogenated fat rich in trans fatty acids, during ... |
7 April 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Big bellies have been seen for a long time now as the main cause for the metabolic syndrome, a group of conditions leading to heart attack: prediabetes, diabetes, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol. By using new powerful imaging technologies, a team of Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) at Yale University ... |
18 July 2007
07:32 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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It seems that what you mustn't eat when you try to lose weight is linked to your insulin levels. This is the conclusion of a research made on 73 obese young adults. "A major question in the field of obesity is, why can some people do well on conventional weight-loss diets, while others on the very same diets do ... |
28 May 2007
04:54 GMT |
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After four years of research, researchers have discovered a way to engineer adult stem cells from human umbilical cord blood to synthesize insulin. This could lead to a revolutionary treatment against diabetes. "This discovery tells us that we have the potential to produce insulin from adult stem cells to help people... |
28 May 2007
03:23 GMT |
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In our search for longevity, the queen honey bee can give us many clues. She is genetically the same with the workers in her hive, but while the workers live for a few months, she can live 10 times longer (up to 10 years) than her sterile sisters and reproducing throughout all her life. A new research at the Universi... |
9 May 2007
08:37 GMT |
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