http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. An exploration of the molecular links between insulin resistance and inflammation may have revealed a novel target for diabetes treatment, say scientists at the John G. Rangos Sr. Research Center, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC. Their findings were published earlier this month in the online version of Diabetes, one of the journals of the American Diabetes Association. http://www.physorg.com/news170504200.html Medicine & Health Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:17:40 EST news170504200 Thinking "outside the medicine cabinet" is paying off in Australia, where a doctor-pharmacist partnership is reducing hospitalizations for heart failure - one of the most expensive conditions to treat - researchers report in Circulation: Heart Failure. http://www.physorg.com/news169832378.html Medicine & Health Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:40:02 EST news169832378 Antioxidant supplements do not appear to be associated with an increased risk of melanoma, according to a report in the August issue of Archives of Dermatology. http://www.physorg.com/news169749557.html Medicine & Health Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:40:02 EST news169749557 A 65-year-old women goes into the hospital for routine hip surgery. Six months later, she develops memory loss and is later diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease. Just a coincidence? Researchers at the University of South Florida and Vanderbilt University don't think so. They suspect that the culprit precipitating Alzheimer's disease in the elderly women may be a routine administration of high concentrations of oxygen for several hours during, or following, surgery - a hypothesis borne out in a recent animal model study. http://www.physorg.com/news169227518.html Medicine & Health Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:10:01 EST news169227518 People diagnosed with type 2 diabetes often resist taking insulin because they fear gaining weight, developing low blood sugar and seeing their quality of life decline. http://www.physorg.com/news169187921.html Medicine & Health Tue, 11 Aug 2009 06:10:01 EST news169187921 In findings that add to the prospects of regenerating insulin-producing cells in people with type 1 diabetes, researchers in Europe -- co-funded by the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation -- have shown that insulin-producing beta cells can be derived from non-insulin-producing cells in the pancreas. http://www.physorg.com/news168799882.html Medicine & Health Thu, 06 Aug 2009 17:54:39 EST news168799882 Researchers have found a way in mice to convert another type of pancreas cell into the critical insulin-producing beta cells that are lost in those with type I diabetes. The secret ingredient is a single transcription factor, according to the report in the August 7th issue of Cell, a Cell Press journal. http://www.physorg.com/news168788864.html Chemistry Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:10:01 EST news168788864 Noninvasive imaging (MRI) may aid physicians in the early diagnosis, staging and treatment of diabetes, according to a study performed at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA. This is the first study of its kind to apply noninvasive imaging techniques to diabetes research. http://www.physorg.com/news168688947.html Medicine & Health Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:05 EST news168688947 Heart disease patients with previous atherosclerosis (fat deposits in the walls of the arteries) are more likely to die in the hospital and less likely to be treated with recommended therapies, researchers report in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. http://www.physorg.com/news168540891.html Medicine & Health Mon, 03 Aug 2009 18:40:01 EST news168540891 (PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of researchers has identified a new method for selectively killing metastatic melanoma cells, which may lead to new areas for drug development in melanoma - a cancer that is highly resistant to current treatment strategies. http://www.physorg.com/news168523956.html Medicine & Health Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:40:03 EST news168523956 Chronic kidney disease (CKD) can significantly lessen patients' quality of life, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society Nephrology (CJASN). Certain types of patients -women, diabetics, and those with a history of heart complications -are most affected. These findings indicate that medical care for CKD patients should include strategies to lessen the negative impact of CKD on quality of life. http://www.physorg.com/news168198229.html Medicine & Health Thu, 30 Jul 2009 20:50:01 EST news168198229 Crack open the latest medical textbook to the chapter on type 2, or adult-onset, diabetes, and you'll be hard pressed to find the term "immunology" anywhere. This is because metabolic conditions and immunologic conditions are, with a few exceptions, distant cousins. http://www.physorg.com/news167835602.html Medicine & Health Sun, 26 Jul 2009 14:00:42 EST news167835602 In the new issue of the Developmental Cell journal, a team of scientists at Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) and the University of North Carolina School of Medicine at Chapel Hill, report research findings about the molecular mechanisms behind the aging process, which has up till now been poorly understood, that offer the possibility that a novel, pharmacological approach could be developed to combat age-related disorders. http://www.physorg.com/news167406901.html Medicine & Health Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:55:56 EST news167406901 Scientists have identified a master regulator gene for early embryonic development of the pancreas and other organs, putting researchers closer to coaxing stem cells into pancreatic cells as a possible cure for type1 diabetes. http://www.physorg.com/news167311578.html Medicine & Health Mon, 20 Jul 2009 12:50:01 EST news167311578 New insights into how a Phase III Alzheimer's drug might work were among the advances in potential therapies targeting two abnormal brain proteins - beta amyloid and phosphorylated tau - that were reported today at the Alzheimer's Association 2009 International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease (ICAD 2009) in Vienna. http://www.physorg.com/news166867134.html Medicine & Health Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:59:17 EST news166867134 (PhysOrg.com) -- For years researchers have been searching for a way to treat diabetics by reactivating their insulin-producing beta cells, to no avail. Now, they may be one step closer. A protein, whose role in pancreatic development has long been recognized, has been discovered to play an additional and previously unknown regulatory role in the development of cells in the immature endocrine system. These cells ultimately give rise to pancreatic islet cells, which include beta cells. http://www.physorg.com/news166374064.html Medicine & Health Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:01:40 EST news166374064 The anti-inflammatory drug indomethacin could hold promise as a treatment for Alzheimer's disease, says a Saint Louis University doctor and researcher. http://www.physorg.com/news166290087.html Medicine & Health Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:00:01 EST news166290087 Scientists at UC Santa Barbara and several other institutions have found laboratory evidence that a cluster of peptides may be the toxic agent in Alzheimer's disease. Scientists say the discovery may lead to new drugs for the disease. http://www.physorg.com/news165687229.html Chemistry Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:15:02 EST news165687229 A low dose of oral interferon alpha shows promise in preserving beta cell function for patients with newly diagnosed type 1 diabetes, or juvenile diabetes, according to researchers at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston. http://www.physorg.com/news165656173.html Medicine & Health Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:10:01 EST news165656173 Scientists have uncovered a novel mechanism linking soluble amyloid -- protein with the synaptic injury and memory loss associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD). The research, published by Cell Press in the June 25 issue of the journal Neuron, provides critical new insight into disease pathogenesis and reveals signaling molecules that may serve as potential additional therapeutic targets for AD. http://www.physorg.com/news165066096.html Medicine & Health Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:43:18 EST news165066096 Two of the most popular and promising dietary supplements - vitamin D and fish oil - will be tested in a large, government-sponsored study to see whether either nutrient can lower a healthy person's risk of getting cancer, heart disease or having a stroke. http://www.physorg.com/news164898427.html Medicine & Health Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:07:40 EST news164898427 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 age groups than type 2 diabetes. http://www.physorg.com/news164883744.html Medicine & Health Mon, 22 Jun 2009 10:02:46 EST news164883744 Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine are trailblazing the molecular pathway that regulates replication of pancreatic beta cells, the insulin-producing cells that are lacking in people who have type 1 or type 2 diabetes. http://www.physorg.com/news163736694.html Medicine & Health Tue, 09 Jun 2009 03:25:32 EST news163736694 I'm curious to see how something like this works out. TheSmarterBarter.com is launching a new Web-based bartering system that pledges to help people who want to trade things find other like-minded people. http://www.physorg.com/news162064181.html Technology Wed, 20 May 2009 18:50:10 EST news162064181 A potential vaccine for Alzheimer's disease also has been shown in mice to slow the weakening of muscles associated with inclusion body myositis, a disorder that affects the elderly. http://www.physorg.com/news161439371.html Medicine & Health Wed, 13 May 2009 13:16:42 EST news161439371 A drug widely used to treat Type 2 diabetes may have unintended effects on the pancreas that could lead to a form of low-grade pancreatitis in some patients and a greater risk of pancreatic cancer in long-term users, UCLA researchers have found. http://www.physorg.com/news160326333.html Medicine & Health Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:05:54 EST news160326333 Using a steroid drug for multiple sclerosis (MS) in addition to an MS drug may reduce the amount of disease activity more than using the MS drug alone, according to a study that will be presented as part of the Late-breaking Science Program at the American Academy of Neurology's 61st Annual Meeting in Seattle, April 25 - May 2, 2009. http://www.physorg.com/news160307373.html Medicine & Health Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:50:32 EST news160307373 When migraine strikes, because of severe pain, often accompanied by nausea and sensitivity to light and sound, sufferers are effectively disabled for up to 72 hours. Since they are forced to stop what they are doing until the pain and other symptoms subside, migraine causes a significant loss in productivity at work and the personal lives of those affected. Migraineurs - especially the 25% of migraineurs who experience more than three migraine attacks per month - are looking to drug developers to provide new drugs to prevent migraine attacks before they start. In the U.S. alone, approximately 30 million people suffer from migraines and the cost to employers has been estimated at $13 billion annually in lost productivity. Currently, several types of drugs, like generic beta blockers, calcium channel blockers, tricyclic antidepressants and anti-epileptic drugs, some of which are used off-label, are given to prevent migraines. However, many patients have only a partial response to these products, many of which have troubling side effects. Nevertheless, many migraine patients use existing drugs, illustrating how badly new drugs are needed. http://www.physorg.com/news160212951.html Medicine & Health Wed, 29 Apr 2009 08:36:22 EST news160212951 (AP) -- Microsoft Corp.'s next version of its Office desktop programs will reach consumers next year, though not likely in conjunction with the Windows 7 operating system. http://www.physorg.com/news158991235.html Technology Wed, 15 Apr 2009 05:14:37 EST news158991235 The use of pancreatic islets (hormone-producing cells) is increasing in diabetes research and may play an important role in future treatments, according to an article in the April 15 issue of JAMA, a theme issue on diabetes. http://www.physorg.com/news158930593.html Medicine & Health Tue, 14 Apr 2009 12:23:54 EST news158930593