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Blood type study sheds light on biology of pancreatic cancer

Blood type study sheds light on biology of pancreatic cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Mar 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Offering a novel clue about the basic biology of pancreatic cancer, researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have confirmed a decades-old discovery of a link between blood type and the ...





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Self-monitoring of blood glucose

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Diabetes patients should always control their own blood sugar values if this leads to improvements in their treatment. This is the view advocated by Michael Nauck of the Bad Lauterberg Diabetes Center and his coauthors in ...


FDA approves new HIV test from Abbott Laboratories

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Sep 18, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration has approved a new test from Abbott Laboratories that detects both types of the virus that causes AIDS.


Tuberculosis treatment may be shortened

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created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

According to Dutch researcher Hanneke Later-Nijland, it may be possible to shorten the duration of treatment for tuberculosis. Due to the long duration of treatment, not every patient sees it through. Partly because of this, ...


Study finds best use of insulin as diabetes progresses

Study finds best use of insulin as diabetes progresses

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- A large-scale trial in diabetes patients has provided new evidence on how best to add insulin to standard drugs to control blood sugar levels as type 2 diabetes progresses.


Vegetables can protect unborn child against diabetes

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created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New evidence is emerging for how important it is for pregnant women to eat good, nutritious food. Expecting mothers who eat vegetables every day seem to have children who are less likely to develop type 1 diabetes, is revealed ...


Link between male diabetics with allergies and kidney disease -- nothing to sneeze at

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created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

For men with type 2 diabetes, a cell type linked to allergic inflammation is closely linked to a key indicator of diabetic kidney disease (nephropathy), suggests a study in the November Clinical Journal of the American So ...


Self monitoring of blood glucose levels helps patients with diabetes

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Self-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG) enables those with diabetes to modify their behavior, adjust their medicine and understand their disease to better manage it, according to a recent study, published by SAGE in The Di ...


Keeping hearts pumping with 'LifeFlow'

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

When paramedics rush to the scene of a multi-car pileup or a terror attack, their first task is to assess who needs immediate care. But blood hemorrhaging can obscure damage, and the gruesome mess means paramedics can't always ...


Lifestyle changes, drug lower type 2 diabetes risk

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created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Intensive lifestyle changes aimed at modest weight loss reduced the rate of developing type 2 diabetes by 34 percent over 10 years in people at high risk for the disease.


ID3 provides career counseling for blood progenitors, driving the creation of gamma-delta T cells

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created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Like an unusually forceful career counselor, the Id3 protein decides the fate of a given white blood cell precursor, according to researchers at Fox Chase Cancer Center. Their findings, published today in the journal Immunity, de ...



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