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Prototype Detector detects Anthrax Quickly

A prototype handheld detector under development at Sandia National Laboratories can identify the fatty acid methyl esters (FAME) of anthrax in less than five minutes. //Sandia's Laboratory Directed Research and Development program supported the work. Sandia is a multiprogram laboratory operated by Sandia Corporation, a Lockheed Martin company, for the U.S. Department of Energy. Fatty a...

Periodontal disease may amass the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes

Study results from the Marquette University School of Dentistry suggest chronic periodontal disease may increase the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes.//The research ties the incidence of diabetes in patients with periodontal disease to the release of bacteria into the bloodstream that triggers a reaction from the immune system. Immune system cells can release proteins called cytok...

A way to slow the progression of Type 1 Diabetes

According to new research, a new drug that suppresses the immune system may slow the progression of type 1 diabetes. An early-phase clinical trial of 10 people aged 8 to 35 years with type 1 diabetes were treated with anti-CD3 mAb, a modified antibody.// A 14-day course of the drug appeared to slow the progressive decline in insulin production commonly seen in type 1 diabetics. Patient...

Celiac Disease in Type 1 Diabetes

According to researchers, a new study shows a strong connection between celiac disease and diabetes. American researchers report the prevalence of celiac disease in people with type 1 diabetes is about 25 times higher than in those without diabetes. Doctors have uncovered a new finding for diabetics.// Celiac disease is a condition in which the absorption of food nutrients through the...

Pancreas transplant gives hope to type 2 diabetes

A new hope for patients with type 2 diabetes. According to a new survey, they showed that a few patients with type 2 diabetes have been selected for a pancreas transplant.// Obesity is a strong risk factor for type 2 diabetes. In type 1 diabetes, the immune system destroys the insulin-producing cells of the pancreas. In type 2 diabetes, the body develops a resistance to insulin, usually...

Importance of type of sex in organ transplantation

Women do not fare as well as men when it comes to organ transplantation, both as donors and recipients. Researchers in Germany now confirm what has long been suspected - kidneys, hearts and livers from female donors are more likely to be rejected// by the recipients than those from males. Female recipients are also more likely to reject a donated organ. The study covered more than 114...

Type of inhaler used in asthma treatment crucial

Asthma is one of the most prevalent diseases in our society with more than five million people being affected with the disease, in the UK alone. According to a major study in the UK, in which researchers examined the medical records of almost 900,000 asthma patients across the UK, asthma sufferers are dying needlessly because they are not being prescribed the most suitable inhalers. The s...

Reducing the risk for type 2 diabetes

Diabetes is a condition in which blood glucose levels are above normal. People with diabetes have problems converting food to energy. Food is broken down into a sugar called glucose, which is carried by the blood to cells throughout the body. Cells use the hormone insulin, made in the pancreas, to help them process blood glucose into energy. People with diabetes can prevent or delay compl...

People with skin cancer at higher risk for other types

Skin cancer usually is so easily cured that Luvie Owens almost forgot she had it.But results of a major new study are giving her cause for concern: Women who have had the most common forms of skin cancer// are 2.3 times as likely to also get deadlier cancers such as breast, lung and colon. Among African-American women, the risk of getting other cancers is 7.5 times higher. The study di...

Predictors for Type 2 Diabetes

Identifying those at risk for diabetes is important because lifestyle changes and medication can prevent or delay the onset of the disease. Currently an oral glucose tolerance test is used to identify high-risk individuals for diabetes, but the test is costly and inconvenient. A new study finds a cluster of risk //factors known as metabolic syndrome is able to predict type 2 diabetes inde...

Risk for Diabetes type II may be in the genes

Obesity has always borne the risk of diabetes. Obese people may be a t a higher risk of having diabetes than non-obese people. // A study by UT Southwestern Medical Center of US suggests that the higher risk of diabetes associated with obesity do have a genetic component. The study had evaluated the role played by ENPP1 K121Q polymorphism in predicting diabetes type II in people. The...

Can There Be A Diabetes Type III?

A recent study is staking a claim that there may be evidence of insulin being produced in the brain that may be a type of //diabetes. In the cases where there are evidence of insulin and related proteins being produced by the brain, the levels of both are related to Alzheimer's disease. The findings, which came out in the march, issue of the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, say that in...

Diet to lower heart disease risk for type 2 diabetes

Fibers in diet lower the cardiovascular risks in patients suffering from type 2 diabetes.// Supplementary dietary fibers lowers the bad cholesterol also known as the low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol and increase the good cholesterol called high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol in people with type 2 diabetes. Diabetes type 2 happens when body cannot use its o...

Target of diabetes type 1 identified

Researchers have identified a set of cells in the pancreas that are targeted by the white blood cells// and cause diabetes type 1. The researchers from University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center says their research is likely to change the study of diabetes autoimmunity and may also change the way other autoimmune diseases are studied. Diabetes type 1 is a m...

Low-fat dairy products may lower the risk of type 2 diabetes in men

An interesting prospective study undertaken by theresearchers at Massachusetts General Hospital and theHarvard School of Public Health, has shown that higher intake of low-fat dairy may lower the risk oftype 2 diabetes in men.// In type 2 diabetes, either the body does not produceenough insulin or the cells ignore the insulin.Insulin is necessary for the body to be able to u...

Plant sterols found to be effective in Type 2 diabetic patients

Plant chemicals called sterols might help to lower your "bad" LDL cholesterol according to a new study.// Plant sterols have been shown to block cholesterol's absorption, lower blood cholesterol beyond diet and they are minimally absorbed by the intestines. The study had 29 participants, all the cases had high cholesterol, and 14 also had type 2 diabetes and were slightly...

Dairy Products Reduce Risk Of Type 2 Diabetes In Men

Diabetes has been such common talk both in medical circles as well as social circles. Every 2nd person out of 5 is a diabetic//. Therefore any news with respite from that is always welcome. It was previously known that dairy consumption is linked to the insulin resistance syndrome among young obese adults. Hyon K. Choi and colleagues at Harvard University found that dairy intake m...

Increasing Insulin Response In Type 2 Diabetics With New Protein Mixture

Diabetes remains one of the significant health problems to be tackled despite significant medical// advancement. It requires a multi faceted approach. A protein-based diet could help in improving resistance in Type II diabetes. A recent study shows that consuming a protein hydrolysate and amino acid mixture with carbohydrates increases insulin production in type 2 diabetics, and could...

Dissecting Diabetes - Is protein AKT2 the cause of type 2 diabetes?

"This is a big step forward in dissecting the pathways and mechanisms of diabetes. It is fascinating." Yes the researchers of Yale University have seen a break through in the identification of the missing protein in the adult onset Type II Diabetes mellitus. They have discovered that mice lacking a gene that produces the enzyme called Akt2 or Protein Kinase B are born without...

Fat Cell Protein Hits Type-2 Diabetes

According to researchers a protein found in human fat cells may become key to the development of future treatments for type-2 or adult onset diabetes. According to Dr. Lucino Roseveltte, professor of medicine at 0the Hopkins College of Medicine in New York , there are molecules produced by the fat cells, the adipose tissue//, circulating throughout the body and affecting the functions of...

Breakthrough in Type II Diabetes

"This is a big step forward in dissecting the pathways and mechanisms of diabetes. It is fascinating." Yes the researchers of Yale University have seen a break through in the identification of the missing protein in the adult onset Type II Diabetes mellitus. They have discovered that mice lacking a gene that produces the enzyme called Akt2 or //Protein Kinase B are born witho...

Sunlight Could Be Beneficial For Certain Types Of Cancer

Exposure to the sun can cause skin cancer – melanoma ,however researchers as the number of patients with skin cancer has increased, so has the number of patients surviving the disease. // Two new studies show sun exposure may have a beneficial influence on some kinds of cancer. In a study conducted by researchers on patients who were diagnosed with melanoma in the late 1980s it was discov...

Different Types Of Multiple Sclerosis May Be Treated Differently

Researchers from the Mayo Clinic had demonstrated that there are differences in pathological subtypes of multiple sclerosis that may react differently to treatment. Only those multiple sclerosis (MS) patients with evidence for antibody deposition or complement activation // -- immune cells that can cause tissue destruction -- in their lesions are likely to respond to plasma exchange, a tr...

Implants In The Ear Is Effective Against All Types Of Hearing Loss

Investigators from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine had said that implants inside the ear that are implanted to help the hearing impaired people can be equally effective for all, irrespective of the degree of hearing loss suffered by the individual. // There is growing evidence that the amount of hearing in an ear prior to surgery is unrelated to a patient’s ability to inte...

Sitagliptin, Under Investigation For Type 2 Diabetes

The number of people suffering from diabetes is already over 194 million worldwide and the number is expected to increase by 333 million by 2025. Type II diabetes is also known as non-insulin dependent diabetes // and is characterized by a relative disparity between endogenous insulin production and insulin requirements, leading to an elevated glucose. In contrast to Type I diabetes, ther...

Dr Reddy’s Strikes Deal With Rheoscience For Type 2 Diabetes Dru

Dr Reddy's Laboratories Thursday announced it had entered a co-development and commercialisation agreement with Denmark-based Rheoscience A/S for the joint development of a drug to treat diabetes. // Under the pact, Rheoscience will fund all costs associated with the Phase-III clinical trials of balaglitazone (DRF 2593), a partial PPAR-gamma agonist, for the treatment of type 2 diabe...

Cigarette Smoking Leads To Development Of Type 2 Diabetes In Patients With Coronary Artery Disease

Type 2 diabetes, characterized by insulin resistance and/or abnormal insulin secretion and increased glucose production, continues to expand unabated throughout the world. The development of new diabetes can be attributed // to decreased physical activity, decreased functional capacity, increased body mass index, preexisting glucose and insulin abnormalities, advanced age and heredity....

Dietary intake of Vitamin E by type 2 diabetics for prevention of atherosclerosis

Diabetes mellitus is an independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease in both men and women, which increases the risk by 2-6 fold relative to nondiabetic subjects and that 80 percent of all type 2 Diabetes // mellitus patients will die of an atherosclerotic event. In these patients hyperglycemia per se confers increased risk for cardiovascular disease, and so the presence of even bor...

Dietary intake of Vitamin E by type 2 diabetics for prevention of atherosclerosis

Diabetes mellitus is an independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease in both men and women, which increases the risk by 2-6 fold relative to nondiabetic subjects and that 80 percent of all type 2 Diabetes mellitus patients will die of an atherosclerotic event//. In these patients hyperglycemia per se confers increased risk for cardiovascular disease, and so the presence of even bor...

No link between type II diabetes and aggressive prostate cancer

New findings presented today at the 47th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology in Denver, Colorado say that there is no direct link //between the presence of type II diabetes and the aggressiveness of prostate cancer, but the long-term survival rate is worse. Researchers at Fox Chase Cancer Center found no correlation between the presence of high...

Systemic Corticosteroid Therapy can be used for treating all types of Infectious Mononucleosis

Scott Thompson and colleagues from University of Rochester Medical Center, has found from review of records of patients treated with corticosteroids that Corticosteroids is the most effective and useful treatment// option for Infectious mononucleosis, including severe airway compromise mononucleosis. The results of the study have been published in Achieves of Otolaryngology – Head and Nec...

UV- Light Tanning As A Type Of Substance-Related Disorder

A suntan is mostly associated with good health and vitality. However, just a small amount of sunlight is needed for the body to manufacture vitamin D. //It doesn't take much sunlight to make all the vitamin D one can use certainly far less than it takes to get a suntan. Recently, a study was conducted to better understand the complex motivations involved with UV light (UVL) tanning beha...

Carnitine deficiency in children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes

Carnitine is essential for the lipid and carbohydrate metabolism, and is known to increase the sensitivity of the cells to insulin.// The use of glucose by the peripheral tissues and proper metabolic control in Type 1 diabetes has potential impact on long-term complications. In diabetes, the metabolism of carbohydrate and fat is abnormal and an association between the proper metabolic c...

Glimepiride in the medical management of Type 2 diabetes

Type 2 diabetes mellitus, a disorder of impaired insulin secretion and insulin resistance, has reached epidemic proportions.// The identification of high-risk individuals and lifestyle management can help control diabetes; however, most patients require pharmacologic intervention. To achieve glycemic control, a stepwise treatment approach has generally been used, beginning with a program...

Ketoacidosis Is The Main Cause On Mortality In Childhood-Onset Type 1 Diabetes

Although the main part of excess mortality in type 1 diabetes is due to long-term complications, an excess death rate// has also been reported from several countries in case subjects with short duration without signs of long-term complications. Except for the mortality caused by onset ketoacidosis or diabetic ketoacidosis after onset, part of the excess mortality has been unexplained deat...

Diabetic Type II Women Have Elevated Bone Density Mass

A recent study was conducted to investigate the association among non-insulin-dependent diabetes, bone mineral density (BMD), and cardiovascular risk factors. The results indicate that diabetic women have a higher bone mineral // density than the controls, and there is no relationship between osteoporosis and cardiovascular risk factors in diabetics. It has generally so far been belie...

Severe Hypoglycemia And Spatial Memory In Children With Type 1 Diabetes

A new study, which appears in the October issue of the journal Diabetes Care, demonstrates that high frequency of and early exposure to severe hypoglycemia during development negatively affects spatial long-term memory performance//. Severe hypoglycemia is a significant and relatively common complication of insulin treatment in children with type 1 diabetes. Repeated severe hypoglycemia...

Breastfeeding To Reduce Risk Of Type 2 Diabetes

A study conducted has revealed that longer duration of breast-feeding is associated with reduction in risk of development of Type 2 diabetes in the mother.// Previous studies have already provided evidence for improved insulin sensitivity and glucose tolerance in lactating mothers when compared to their counterparts. The study is the first of its kind to explore and establish a relations...

Alzheimer's a new type of diabetes: Study

Recent research demonstrates that Alzheimer's disease represents a neuro-endocrine disorder that resembles a unique form of diabetes mellitus and progresses // with severity of neuro-degeneration. In their study, to be published in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, researchers demonstrate that insulin and its receptors drop significantly in the brain during the early stages of Alzh...

Environment a major factor in occurrence of Type 2 Diabetes

Researchers from the University of Lund in Sweden have conducted a study that links environmental pollutants with high occurrence of type 2 diabetes // . Exposure to organochlorine pollutants (POPs) have already been linked with asthma, diabetes and many cancers. High levels of POPs such as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and the insecticide dichloro-diphenyl-trichloro-ethan...