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Researchers discover novel mechanisms that might causally link type-2 diabetes to Alzheimer's disease
Apr 10, 2009 |
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A recent study by Mount Sinai faculty suggests that a gene associated with onset of type-2 diabetes also decreases in Alzheimer's disease dementia cases. The research, led by Dr. Giulio Maria Pasinetti, MD, Ph.D., The Aidekman ...
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Researchers identify the 3 killer indicators that are even worse than high cholesterol
Nov 02, 2009 |
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Researchers at the University of Warwick have identified a particular combination of health problems that can double the risk of heart attack and cause a three-fold increase in the risk of mortality.
Use of antipsychotic medications by children and adolescents associated with significant weight gain
Medicine & Health / Medications
Oct 27, 2009 |
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Many pediatric and adolescent patients who received second-generation antipsychotic medications experienced significant weight gain, along with varied adverse effects on cholesterol and triglyceride levels and other metabolic ...
Could antioxidants make us more, not less, prone to diabetes? Study says yes
Oct 06, 2009 |
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We've all heard about the damage that reactive oxygen species (ROS) - aka free radicals - can do to our bodies and the sales pitches for antioxidant vitamins, skin creams or "superfoods" that can stop them. In fact, there ...
Research shows safe dosages of common pain reliever may help prevent conditions related to aging
Sep 23, 2009 |
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Recent studies conducted by Dr. Eric Blough and his colleagues at Marshall University have shown that use of the common pain reliever acetaminophen may help prevent age-associated muscle loss and other conditions.
Biotransformed blueberry juice fights fat and diabetes
Sep 01, 2009 |
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Juice extracted from North American lowbush blueberries, biotransformed with bacteria from the skin of the fruit, holds great promise as an anti-obesity and anti-diabetic agent. The study, published in the International Jo ...
Get the world on its feet: The role of exercise training
Aug 31, 2009 |
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Western societies are struggling to pay for their ever increasing medical budgets. In the US up to 393 billion US-$ were spent in 2005 for cardiovascular diseases alone. Based on epidemiologic studies in primary prevention ...
The anti-diabetic effects of sodium tungstate revealed
Aug 27, 2009 |
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The molecular mechanisms of tungstate activity in diabetes have been uncovered. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Genomics have identified the pathways through which sodium tungstate improves pancreatic functi ...
Antipsychotic drugs associated with high blood sugar in older adults with diabetes
Medicine & Health / Medications
Jul 27, 2009 |
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Older patients with diabetes who take antipsychotic medications appear to have an increased risk of hospitalization for hyperglycemia (elevated blood glucose level), especially soon after beginning treatment, according to ...
The battle for CRTC2: How obesity increases the risk for diabetes
Jun 21, 2009 |
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Obesity is probably the most important factor in the development of insulin resistance, but science's understanding of the chain of events is still spotty. Now, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological ...
Could standard treatment for traumatic brain injury be wrong?
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jun 03, 2009 |
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Traumatic brain injury — not heart disease, stroke or cancer — is the number one cause of death and disability in people under 45. Each year, some 1.5 million Americans, including soldiers, athletes, the elderly and children, ...
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