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UM Scientists Create Fruit Fly Model to Help Unravel Genetics of Human Diabetes
While sedentary lifestyles and diets high in sugar and fat contribute significantly to the rise in diabetes rates, genetic factors may make some people more vulnerable than others to developing diabet...
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Read moreSmart solution: SLU researchers use smartphones to improve health of elderly diabetics in China
Cellular phones - once a luxury used strictly for talking - have taken on many new roles in recent years. Now researchers at Saint Louis University and Old Dominion University in Virginia say smartpho...
Information Technology | Read moreNo major role for fish in the prevention of heart failure
The consumption of fish has no major role in the prevention of heart failure, according to results from a large prospective population study.(1) The study, which was started in 1990 and involv...
Studies and Analyses | Read moreSPIRIT IV trial shows everolimus stent sets new standard for event-free survival
Late-breaking data from SPIRIT IV, a large-scale multi-center study of nearly 4,000 patients in the U.S., shows that an everolimus-eluting stent demonstrated enhanced safety and efficacy in the treatm...
Medical Engineering | Read moreScientists cure color blindness in monkeys
Writing online Wednesday in the journal Nature, scientists cast a rosy light on the potential for gene therapy to treat adult vision disorders involving cone cells — the most important cells for visio...
Life Sciences | Read moreDNA mutations linked to diabetes
Type II diabetes is characterised by a lower sensitivity to insulin in muscles and organs, and a reduced ability to consume energy in the form of glucose. Heredity and environmental factors (e.g. exer...
Life Sciences | Read morePitt study finds molecular link between insulin resistance and inflammation
Signs of low-grade systemic inflammation are not uncommon among people who have the pre-diabetic condition known as metabolic syndrome, as well as in animal models of obesity and type 2, or insulin-re...
Studies and Analyses | Read moreResearch shows why low vitamin D raises heart disease risks in diabetics
A healthy macrophage cell, at left, with sufficient vitamin D. On the right, a macrophage with inadequate vitamin D has become clogged with cholesterol, an early marker of atherosclerosis. The...
Health and Medicine | Read moreCoating of intraocular lens for after-cataract prophylaxis
Cataract is the leading cause of preventable blindness in elderly or diabetic patients worldwide. With a simple surgical technique, the opaque lens can be removed and replaced by an intraocular lens (...
Technology Offerings | Read moreExtreme glucose levels in diabetic patients with heart failure linked to increase risk of deaths
To determine average glucose levels in the blood over a two to three month period, doctors measure glycosylated hemoglobin (the oxygen-carrying protein in the blood that is bound to the sugar glucose)...
Health and Medicine | Read moreMajor study highlights weight differences among 3-19 year-olds with type 1 and 2 diabetes
A major study of three to 19 year-olds has provided vital data on the weight problems faced by the growing number of children and young people with type 1 diabetes, which is more prevalent in younger ...
Studies and Analyses | Read moreScientist holds promise for novel oral anti-diabetic drugs
For his groundbreaking work, Prof. Shlomo Sasson of the Hebrew University School of Pharmacy has been named one of the winners this year of the Hebrew University’s Kaye Innovation Awards. Typ...
Life Sciences | Read moreStopping fatty change in heart cells
Heart failure is one of the world's most frequent causes of death - caused by conditions such as diabetes and obesity. With people who are overweight, the heart has to do more work in order to pu...
Life Sciences | Read moreCarbon monoxide reverses diabetic gastric problem in mice
"This is a significant finding, as it shows that loss of the enzyme that makes carbon monoxide is the actor in this process and that it provides us with a clear approach toward a possible new the...
Studies and Analyses | Read moreMore than a bad night's sleep
Sleep apnea has long been known to be associated with obesity. But a new study published in the June issue of Diabetes Care finds that the disorder is widely undiagnosed among obese individuals with t...
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