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Updated: 28 November 2011
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  • Unexpected source for diabetic neuropathy pain

    Nearly half of all diabetics suffer from neuropathic pain, an intractable, agonizing and still mysterious companion of the disease. Now researchers have identified an unexpected source of the pain and a potential target to alleviate it.

  • Protein inhibitor points to potential medical treatments for skull and skin birth defects

    Researchers have found new clues in the pathogenesis of skull and skin birth defects associated with a rare genetic disorder, Beare-Stevenson cutis gyrata syndrome (BSS).

  • Artificial pancreas gets first U. S. Outpatient test

    The first U.S. outpatient trial of an artificial pancreas could make it easier for type 1 diabetes patients to manage their condition.

  • Scientists uncover potential treatment for painful side effect of diabetes

    Why diabetics suffer from increased pain and temperature sensitivity is a step closer to being understood and effectively treated.

  • What do marine snails and insulin have in common? New approach to treat diabetes?

    The cone snails are predators of the sea. They capture fish by injecting a venom into the prey that consists of a cocktail of different substances. The single components of the snails' venom, so-called conopeptides, are known for their extraordinary pharmacological properties and potential.

  • Eating fast increases diabetes risk

    People who wolf down their food are two and a half times more likely to suffer from type 2 diabetes than those who take their time according to new research.

  • Diabetes drug could treat leading cause of blindness: Metformin blocks uveitis in rats

    Researchers have discovered that a drug already prescribed to millions of people with diabetes could also have another important use: treating one of the world's leading causes of blindness.

  • Diabetes improved regardless of surgical procedure

    New research reports that no procedure for weight loss surgery is any better at treating diabetes than another. A large ongoing study has shown that improvements to diabetes in patients undergoing such surgery is likely to be due to the degree of weight loss itself rather than the type of procedure.

  • Diabetes shrinks elderly brain

    Elderly people with pre-diabetes and type 2 diabetes suffer from an accelerated decline in brain size and mental capacity in as little as two years according to new research.

  • Caffeine can prevent memory loss in diabetes

    Badly controlled diabetes are known to affect the brain causing memory and learning problems and even increased incidence of dementia, although how this occurs is not clear. But now a study in mice with type 2 diabetes has discovered how diabetes affects a brain area called hippocampus causing memory loss, and also how caffeine can prevent this. 

  • Turning 'bad' fat into good: A new candidate pathway for treating visceral obesity

    Brown seems to be the color of choice when it comes to the types of fat cells in our bodies. Brown fat expends energy, while its counterpart, white fat stores it. Now a team of researchers has essentially made white fat take on characteristics of brown fat. Their findings put medical science a step closer in the race to develop novel anti-obesity therapies.

  • Liver fat gets a wake-up call that maintains blood sugar levels

    A research team reports that mice in which an enzyme called histone deacetylase 3 was deleted had massively fatty livers, but lower blood sugar, and were thus protected from glucose intolerance and insulin resistance, the hallmark of diabetes.

  • Losing weight when obese can prevent or cure diabetes, whatever the initial BMI, study suggests

    Lowering your BMI by five units can dramatically reduce your risk of diabetes, whatever your initial weight, says new research. The findings show that even severely obese patients with diabetes can potentially rid themselves of the disease.

  • Possible protective blood factors against type 2 diabetes identified

    Researchers have shown that levels of certain related proteins found in blood are associated with a greatly reduced risk for developing type 2 diabetes up to a decade or more later. The findings could open a new front in the war against diabetes.

  • Why underweight babies become obese: Study says disrupted hypothalamus is to blame

    A new animal model study has found that in low–birth-weight babies whose growth was restricted in the womb, the level of appetite-producing neuropeptides in the brain's hypothalamus — the central control of the appetite — is higher, resulting in a natural tendency among these children to consume more calories.

  • Increased fructose consumption may deplete cellular energy in patients with obesity and diabetes

    Obese people who consume increased amounts of fructose, a type of sugar that is found in particular in soft drinks and fruit juices, are at risk for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NFALD) and more its more severe forms, fatty inflammation and scarring.

  • Is there a link between mood and glucose control in diabetes?

    When blood sugar levels in diabetes are poorly controlled, patients tend to have more complications such as depression and other mood disturbances, including anxiety and anger, and a lower overall quality of life. A better understanding of the relationship between glycemic variability and psychological disorders can lead to more effective strategies for patient management, researchers say.

  • Evidence that BMI has an independent and causal effect on heart disease risk

    In addition to the many risk factors associated with poor health, reducing body mass index (BMI) will have a considerable and independent impact if you want to reduce the risk of developing ischemic heart disease. This is the key finding from new research which evaluated the causal relationship between BMI and heart disease in 76,000 individuals.

  • Important mechanism that affects the aging process identified

    Scientists have identified a key mechanism of action for the TOR (target of rapamycin) protein kinase, a critical regulator of cell growth which plays a major role in illness and aging. This finding not only illuminates the physiology of aging but could lead to new treatments to increase lifespan and control age-related conditions, such as cancer, type 2 diabetes, and neurodegeneration.

  • Armpits, belly buttons and chronic wounds: The ABCs of our body bacteria

    Minutes after you were born, bacteria moved in. Their populations have exploded, diversified and spread in and on your body, including your skin. Scientists are learning how and why bacteria colonize particular places, possibly pointing to ways of treating skin and other conditions. Researchers have discovered that each person's collection of bacteria is unique -- like fingerprints. But unlike your fingerprints, the bacterial communities can change depending on your diet, environment, health, age and many other factors. Swab samples from about 200 volunteers' belly buttons contained an astonishing variety of bacteria -- nearly 4,000 different strains, many of which are completely new to scientists.

  • Two drugs better than one to treat youth with type 2 diabetes, study suggests

    A combination of two diabetes drugs, metformin and rosiglitazone, was more effective in treating youth with recent-onset type 2 diabetes than metformin alone, a new study has found. Adding an intensive lifestyle intervention to metformin provided no more benefit than metformin therapy alone.

  • Being left out puts youths with special needs at risk for depression

    The challenges that come with battling a chronic medical condition or developmental disability are enough to get a young person down. But being left out, ignored or bullied by their peers is the main reason youths with special health care needs report symptoms of anxiety or depression, according to a new study.

  • Manipulating molecules in heart protects mice on high-fat diets from obesity, affects metabolism

    Researchers have demonstrated for the first time that the heart can regulate energy balance throughout the body, a finding that may point to more effective treatments for obesity, diabetes, and heart disease.

  • Stem cell researchers map new knowledge about insulin production

    Scientists have gained new insight into the signaling paths that control the body's insulin production. This is important knowledge with respect to their final goal: The conversion of stem cells into insulin-producing beta cells that can be implanted into patients who need them.

  • Building muscle without heavy weights

    Weight training at a lower intensity but with more repetitions may be as effective for building muscle as lifting heavy weights, says a new opinion piece.

 
 
 
 
 

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