http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. New research shows that growing up in areas where air pollution is increased raises the risk of insulin resistance (the prescursor to diabetes) in children. The research is published in Diabetologia, the journal of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD), and is by Elisabeth Thiering and Joachim Heinrich, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Neuherberg, Germany, and colleagues. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-air-pollution-insulin-resistance-children.html Diabetes Thu, 09 May 2013 18:00:02 EST news287316347 Hair dye manufacturers are on notice: The cure for gray hair is coming. That's right, the need to cover up one of the classic signs of aging with chemical pigments will be a thing of the past thanks to a team of European researchers. In a new research report published online in The FASEB Journal people who are going gray develop massive oxidative stress via accumulation of hydrogen peroxide in the hair follicle, which causes our hair to bleach itself from the inside out, and most importantly, the report shows that this massive accumulation of hydrogen peroxide can be remedied with a proprietary treatment developed by the researchers described as a topical, UVB-activated compound called PC-KUS (a modified pseudocatalase). What's more, the study also shows that the same treatment works for the skin condition, vitiligo. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-gray-hair-vitiligo-reversed-root.html Medical research Fri, 03 May 2013 12:57:35 EST news286804531 The issue of sleep deprivation has gone beyond the counting of sheep and into the scientific domain, as European researchers set up 'sleep labs' to study the biomedical and sociological factors keeping us awake at night. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-scientists.html Health Fri, 03 May 2013 07:20:02 EST news286782589 African-American women who survive breast cancer are more likely to develop heart failure than other women who have beaten the disease, according to research being presented at the American College of Cardiology's 62nd Annual Scientific Session. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-african-american-breast-cancer-survivors-higher.html Cardiology Thu, 07 Mar 2013 12:31:06 EST news281881860 (HealthDay)—A diet low in palmitic acid (PA) and high in oleic acid (OA) improves insulin sensitivity and is associated with lower levels of markers of metabolic and oxidative stress in women only, according to a study published online Dec. 13 in Diabetes. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-dietary-paoa-fat-ratio-affect.html Diabetes Fri, 28 Dec 2012 15:30:01 EST news275927527 The first evidence of blood vessel dysfunction has been found in a small cohort of generally healthy young people with cystic fibrosis, researchers report. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-impaired-blood-vessel-function-cystic.html Medical research Mon, 26 Nov 2012 13:17:17 EST news273158221 Gaining new insight to managing sodium balance and blood pressure, investigators at the University of Houston (UH) College of Pharmacy believe their work may identify future therapeutic targets to control hypertension. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-aging-kidneys-key-high-blood.html Medical research Wed, 29 Aug 2012 16:28:01 EST news265476470 (Medical Xpress) -- Could ovulation be the link to ovarian cancer? Joanna Burdette of the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Pharmacy thinks it might be, and she's working to find out. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-ovarian-cancer-linked-ovulation.html Cancer Tue, 24 Jul 2012 16:11:03 EST news262365057 It has long been known that cancer is a disease of aging, but a molecular link between the two has remained elusive. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-aging-cells-fuels-tumor-growth.html Cancer Thu, 14 Jun 2012 14:59:36 EST news258904683