http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Notorious among athletes and trainers as career killers, Achilles tendon injuries are among the most devastating. Now, by carbon testing tissues exposed to nuclear fallout in post WWII tests, scientists have learned why: Like our teeth and the lenses in our eyes, the Achilles tendon is a tissue that does not repair itself. This discovery was published online in The FASEB Journal. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-fallout-nuclear-achilles-tendon.html Medical research Tue, 12 Feb 2013 10:18:22 EST news279886682 By measuring the radioactive isotope carbon-14, scientists at Karolinska Institutet have revealed an association between lipid cell dysfunction and diseases such as obesity, diabetes and blood lipid disorders. The study, which is presented in the journal Nature, can lead to new approaches to combating metabolic diseases. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-cell-dysfunction-linked-obesity-metabolic.html Medical research Mon, 26 Sep 2011 07:28:13 EST news236240848