October 22, 2021
Via: The Medical NewsNew findings from the international The Environmental Determinants of Diabetes in the Young (TEDDY) study add to a growing body of evidence indicating that type 1 diabetes is not a single disease. The presentation and, perhaps, cause of autoimmune diabetes […]
October 1, 2021
Via: The Medical NewsWHO today published the new edition of its Model Lists of Essential Medicines and Essential Medicines for Children, which include new treatments for various cancers, insulin analogues and new oral medicines for diabetes, new medicines to assist people who want […]
September 27, 2021
Via: The Medical NewsAdults with type 1 or type 2 diabetes whose blood pressure increased at night had more than double the risk of dying compared to those whose blood pressure “dipped” during sleep, according to a 21-year study presented today at the […]
August 30, 2021
Via: The Medical NewsWhile the majority of those infected with SARS-CoV-2 experience only mild symptoms, a significant minority progress to severe or critical symptoms with high rates of mortality. Many risk factors associated with more serious symptoms such as respiratory failure and pneumonia […]
August 16, 2021
Via: Healthcare DiveWhat you eat plays a leading role in your health and well-being. When someone eats healthy, it helps to protect against many chronic diseases such as heart disease, prediabetes, type 2 diabetes and obesity. But with so many fad diets […]
August 5, 2021
Via: medicaldevice-network.comA team of researchers at the University of Cambridge and Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has developed an artificial pancreas that can benefit patients with both type 2 diabetes (T2D) and kidney failure. The research team had earlier developed […]
July 27, 2021
Via: The Medical NewsA team of international scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore), Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH) in Singapore, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has developed a simple method of extracting tiny biological particles from a person’s blood […]
July 7, 2021
Via: The Medical NewsScientists at the University of Cambridge have identified rare genetic variants – carried by one in 3,000 people – that have a larger impact on the risk of developing type 2 diabetes than any previously identified genetic effect. Type 2 […]
June 9, 2021
Via: The Medical NewsIt all started, when Patrice Cani, FNRS researcher at University of Louvain (UCLouvain), and his team repeatedly observed that a bacterium (called Subdoligranulum) is almost absent in obese and diabetic people, while it is systematically present in healthy people. So, […]
June 3, 2021
Via: The Medical NewsType 2 diabetes patients who are not overweight and who have had the disorder for less than a decade can benefit from stromal stem cells transplanted from their own bone marrow, according to a study published today in STEM CELLS […]
April 28, 2021
Via: ScienceDaily HealthProcessed diets, which are low in fiber, may initially reduce the incidence of foodborne infectious diseases such as E. coli infections, but might also increase the incidence of diseases characterized by low-grade chronic infection and inflammation such as diabetes, according […]
April 16, 2021
Via: The Medical NewsThe World Health Organization’s new Global Diabetes Compact aims to bring a much-needed boost to efforts to prevent diabetes and bring treatment to all who need it ̶ 100 years after the discovery of insulin. The Compact is being launched […]
April 13, 2021
Via: The Medical NewsPeople who have recovered from COVID-19, especially those with pre-existing cardiovascular conditions, may be at risk of developing blood clots due to a lingering and overactive immune response, according to a study led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU) scientists. […]
March 15, 2021
Via: ScienceDaily HealthResearchers at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, have now presented results that may change our basic view of how type 2 diabetes occurs. Their study indicates that free fatty acids (FFAs) in the blood trigger insulin release even at a […]
February 4, 2021
Via: The Medical NewsA major study of nearly 2 million heart attack patients has found that many who also had cancer were not offered a potentially lifesaving treatment, despite the fact it had major benefits. The international research team, led by Keele’s Professor […]
January 27, 2021
Via: MedPageTodayEthnic differences emerged among subgroups of diabetes characteristics, a new study found. In an analysis of nearly 1,300 people with diabetes, five distinct types of diabetes cases were identified — older age at diabetes onset (43%), severe hyperglycemia (26%), severe […]
December 4, 2020
Via: The Medical NewsThe air we exhale contains information that can assist with the diagnosis of disease. Researchers at the Fraunhofer Project Hub for Microelectronic and Optical Systems for Biomedicine MEOS are now developing solutions designed to enable the analysis of breath gas […]
December 3, 2020
Via: The Medical NewsA new study further implicates low levels of the amino acid glycine in development of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, or NAFLD. It also suggests addressing this might hold the key to a future treatment for the disease. “We’ve uncovered a […]
November 25, 2020
Via: The Medical NewsGut hormones play an important role in regulating fat production in the body. One key hormone, released a few hours after eating, turns off fat production by regulating gene expression in the liver, but this regulation is abnormal in obesity, […]
November 19, 2020
Via: The Medical NewsWhen they set out to study local levels of death from liver diseases in the U.S., University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and Emory researchers found significant differences in death rates even within the same state, according to a […]