http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. The same factor in our immune system that is instrumental in enabling us to fight off severe and dangerous inflammatory ailments is also a player in doing the opposite at a later stage, causing the suppression of our immune response. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-probe-enigma-element-enemy.html Immunology Wed, 03 Apr 2013 10:01:53 EST news284202106 Resveratrol, a molecule found in red wine (and red grape skin and elsewhere) is back in the headlines after an international team of researchers published a paper in the journal Sciencelate last week. The news made headlines around the world. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-resveratrol-red-wine-sauce-fountain.html Medical research Wed, 13 Mar 2013 09:40:03 EST news282385275 Researchers at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and VA Boston Healthcare System (VA BHS) have found that cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) can help relieve pain for people with painful diabetic neuropathies. The study, which is the first of its kind to examine this treatment for people with type II diabetes mellitus, is published in the March issue of the Journal of Pain. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-goal-oriented-therapy-diabetic-neuropathies.html Diabetes Mon, 04 Mar 2013 16:36:47 EST news281637384 A growing generational disconnect between adults and children is putting thousands of years of cultural tradition and culinary knowledge in southern Arizona in jeopardy, according to a recent study by a researcher in the University of Georgia College of Public Health. The impact of this "knowledge gap" could help to explain the rise of childhood obesity, Type II diabetes and cardiovascular disease in Native American and Mexican-American populations in Arizona. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-health-obesity-knowledge-gap.html Overweight and Obesity Tue, 05 Feb 2013 06:23:37 EST news279267792 In one of the first genome-wide studies to hunt for both genes and their regulatory "tags" in patients suffering from a common disease, researchers have found a clear role for the tags in mediating genetic risk for rheumatoid arthritis (RA), an immune disorder that afflicts an estimated 1.5 million American adults. By teasing apart the tagging events that result from RA from those that help cause it, the scientists say they were able to spot tagged DNA sequences that may be important for the development of RA. And they suspect their experimental method can be applied to predict similar risk factors for other common, noninfectious diseases, like type II diabetes and heart ailments. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-genes-regulatory-tags-conspire-rheumatoid.html Genetics Sun, 20 Jan 2013 13:00:19 EST news277899999 Obese, postmenopausal women are at greater risk for developing breast cancer and their cancers tend to be more aggressive than those in lean counterparts. A University of Colorado Cancer Center study published in the December issue of the journal Cancer Research shows how this risk might be prevented. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-healthy-lifestyle-menopause-decrease-breast.html Cancer Wed, 19 Dec 2012 13:24:30 EST news275145864 A new therapeutic approach to diabetes that combines insulin and an inhibitor of the epidermal growth factor (EGF) betacellulin could limit the progression of diabetic macular edema (DME), Cleveland Clinic researcher Bela Anand-Apte, MD, PhD, said at the American Society for Cell Biology Annual Meeting, on Dec. 17 in San Francisco. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-insulin-growth-factor-inhibitor-limits.html Diabetes Mon, 17 Dec 2012 18:00:01 EST news274986876 (Medical Xpress)—In a new study published in the scientific journal Circulation, scientists at Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital show that an enzyme called arginase might have a key part to play in the development of cardiovascular disease in patients who already have type II diabetes. According to the team, arginase prevents the formation of protective nitrogen oxide in the blood vessels, and treatments that inhibit this enzyme reduce the risk of angina in diabetics. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-enzyme-angina-diabetics.html Cardiology Tue, 27 Nov 2012 06:55:41 EST news273221566 (Medical Xpress)—Gastric bypass patients who attended five follow-up office visits in two years as recommended by their surgeons lost nearly twice as much weight (113 lbs. vs. 57 lbs.) as patients who attended only two follow-up visits, according to a University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing study in Obesity Surgery. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-gastric-bypass-surgery.html Overweight and Obesity Tue, 20 Nov 2012 10:28:20 EST news272629016 Mayo Clinic researchers are presenting new findings on the early treatment of child and adolescent attention deficit hyperactivity disorder this week at the American Academy of Childhood and Adolescent Psychiatry annual meeting in San Francisco. They include a method to get better input from parents and teachers of children who are being diagnosed with ADHD for the first time—allowing for more effective treatment upon the first consultation. Researchers also showed how a tool can help clinicians better diagnose and treat children who have both ADHD and oppositional defiance disorder. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-tools-adhd-patients-early-stages.html Attention deficit disorders Fri, 26 Oct 2012 11:50:01 EST news270469605 Scientists have identified a key molecular player in a chain of events in the body that can lead to fatty liver disease, Type II diabetes and other metabolic abnormalities associated with obesity. By blocking this molecule, the researchers were able to reverse some of the pathology it caused in obese mice. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-obesity-micro-rna-metabolic-problems.html Overweight and Obesity Thu, 20 Sep 2012 11:43:19 EST news267360164 (Medical Xpress)—A drug designed for diabetes sufferers could have the potential to treat neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's, a study by scientists at the University of Ulster has revealed. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-experimental-diabetes-drug-alzheimer-disease.html Alzheimer's disease & dementia Fri, 14 Sep 2012 15:12:20 EST news266854314 (Medical Xpress)—Women with type II diabetes are nearly 30 per cent more likely to get breast cancer, according to results of a comprehensive review published in the British Journal of Cancer today (Friday). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-post-menopausal-women-diabetes-greater-breast.html Cancer Fri, 14 Sep 2012 07:31:28 EST news266826679 A University of Louisville scientist has found a way to prevent inflammation and bone loss surrounding the teeth by blocking a natural signaling pathway of the enzyme GSK3b, which plays an important role in directing the immune response. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-discovery-gum-disease.html Immunology Tue, 11 Sep 2012 09:05:22 EST news266573117 A new 'traffic light' test devised by Dr Nick Sheron and colleagues at University of Southampton and Southampton General Hospital could be used in primary care to diagnose liver fibrosis and cirrhosis in high risk populations more easily than at present. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-traffic-earlier-diagnosis-liver-disease.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 29 Aug 2012 11:05:54 EST news265457144 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 in Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-muscle-heavy-weights.html Health Thu, 26 Apr 2012 04:36:54 EST news254633670 Maintaining the right level of sugar in the blood is the responsibility not only of insulin, which removes glucose, but also of a hormone called glucagon, which adds glucose. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-glucagon-pathway-approach-diabetes.html Diabetes Thu, 12 Apr 2012 12:00:17 EST news253443358 In their extraordinary quest to decode human metabolism, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have discovered a pair of molecules that regulates the liver's production of glucose -- the simple sugar that is the source of energy in human cells and the central player in diabetes. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-molecular-liver-glucose-production-ii.html Medical research Sun, 08 Apr 2012 13:00:29 EST news253084650 Metformin, a drug widely used to treat Type II diabetes, may help to prevent primary liver cancer, researchers at the University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center report in the April 2012 issue of Cancer Prevention Research. Primary liver cancer, or hepatocellular carcinoma, is an often-deadly form of cancer that is on the rise worldwide and is the fastest-growing cause of cancer-related deaths among American men. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-commonly-diabetes-drug-primary-liver.html Cancer Sun, 01 Apr 2012 06:14:05 EST news252479627 Subjects in a cohort in Sweden, some of whom had been exposed to a community intervention program to prevent diabetes, were evaluated 8-10 years after baseline for the presence of diabetes mellitus or impaired glucose metabolism ("pre-diabetes") in relation to a baseline report of alcohol consumption. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-association-alcohol-diabetes.html Diabetes Thu, 29 Mar 2012 10:46:45 EST news252236796 These days, most of us don't head to the doctor until we are already ill. What if you could see disease approaching just as it starts to head your way? A study in a special March 16th issue of Cell focused on human biology shows that this futuristic notion is already in reach. Scientists have combined a complete personal genome sequence with analyses of disease risks and an array of dynamic molecular measures, capturing important changes in the way the human body works. The study is the first to apply "integrative Personal Omics Profiling" (iPOP for short) to observe healthy and diseased states, the researchers say. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-disease-unprecedented.html Genetics Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:02:29 EST news251031731 A recent study shows that the presence of H. pylori bacteria is associated with elevated levels of glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c), an important biomarker for blood glucose levels and diabetes. This association was stronger in obese individuals with a higher Body Mass Index (BMI). The results, which suggest the bacteria may play a role in the development of diabetes in adults, are published in The Journal of Infectious Diseases and are now available online. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-link-pylori-bacteria-adult-diabetes.html Diabetes Wed, 14 Mar 2012 04:51:58 EST news250919485 In 2005, news first broke that researchers in Scotland found unexpectedly low rates of cancer among diabetics taking metformin, a drug commonly prescribed to patients with Type II diabetes. Many follow-up studies reported similar findings, some suggesting as much as a 50-per-cent reduction in risk. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-mystery-diabetes-drug-cancer.html Cancer Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:17:03 EST news246115015 New research reveals that insulin applied in therapeutic doses selectively stimulates the formation of new elastic fibers in cultures of human aortic smooth muscle cells. These results advance the understanding of the molecular and cellular mechanisms of diabetic vascular disease. The study is published in the February issue of the American Journal of Pathology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-insulin-therapy-atherosclerotic-lesions-diabetic.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 09 Jan 2012 13:01:04 EST news245336456 An analytical technique using high brilliance infrared light produced by the SOLEIL synchrotron has been developed by teams from the CNRS, Paris Sud University, Tenon Hospital in Paris, and the Stoke-on-Trent Cancer Centre (GB) to study the calcification present in the kidneys of patients with renal failure. The results show that it is now possible to identify different types of calcification, some of which are specific to diseases that can be treated. If this information is obtained early, the patients concerned can be treated on time and avoid kidney loss and an eventual kidney transplant. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-earlier-diagnosis-kidney-transplants.html Medical research Tue, 29 Nov 2011 14:20:04 EST news241797397 Researchers at the Salk Institute have discovered how a hormone turns on a series of molecular switches inside the pancreas that increases production of insulin. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-discovery-insulin-pancreas-diabetes-drugs.html Medical research Mon, 26 Sep 2011 16:54:53 EST news236274880 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 Poor maternal diet before conception can result in offspring with reduced birth weights and increased risk of developing type II diabetes and obesity. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-pre-pregnancy-diet-affects-health-future.html Health Sat, 02 Jul 2011 10:24:34 EST news228820840 She's a biologist investigating microbial genomics. He studies protein structures using electron microscopy. Put them together and their research opens doors. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-treatments-alzheimer-parkinson.html Medical research Mon, 06 Jun 2011 11:30:05 EST news226575767 By virtue of having survived, all animals-from flies to man-share a common expertise. All can distinguish times of plenty from famine and adjust their metabolism or behavior accordingly. Failure to do so signals either extinction or disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-evolutionary-fat-metabolism-pathways.html Medical research Thu, 12 May 2011 12:29:48 EST news224422164