Diabetes
Type 2 diabetes—is it what you eat, or how much?
Type 2 diabetes is a growing concern. Already, two million Australians and almost half a billion people worldwide have diabetes.
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Diabetes
FDA approves ozempic for type 2 diabetes
(HealthDay)—A new once-weekly diabetes medication that lowers blood glucose and also helps patients lose weight has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Dec 6, 2017
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Medical research
Is Alzheimer's disease a disorder of energy metabolism?
A team of investigators from McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School, led by Kai C. Sonntag, MD, PhD, and Bruce M. Cohen, MD, PhD, has found a connection between disrupted energy production and the development of late-onset ...
Oct 26, 2017
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Oncology & Cancer
Study challenges long-standing concept in cancer metabolism
Scientists at the Children's Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern (CRI) have discovered that lactate provides a fuel for growing tumors, challenging a nearly century-old observation known as the Warburg effect.
Oct 5, 2017
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Diabetes
Substance in coffee delays onset of diabetes in laboratory mice
In recent years, researchers have identified substances in coffee that could help quash the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes. But few of these have been tested in animals. Now in study appearing in ACS' Journal of Natural ...
Sep 6, 2017
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
A rusty and sweet side of sepsis
Sepsis is a major global healthcare problem that affects over 18 million individuals per year, every single year, corresponding to 1,400 deaths per day. In Europe and the US alone, there are an estimated 135,000 and 215,000 ...
Jun 15, 2017
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Diabetes
Diabetes study finds that cutting nerves to the kidneys improves insulin resistance
Incapacitating specific nerves to the kidneys improves the work of insulin on another organ, the liver, according to research from Cedars-Sinai recently published in the journal Diabetes.
Nov 1, 2016
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Diabetes
New strategy to lower blood sugar may help in diabetes treatment
Some treatments for type 2 diabetes make the body more sensitive to insulin, the hormone that lowers blood sugar. But new research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis suggests a different strategy: slowing ...
Sep 3, 2015
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Diabetes
Targeting glucose production in liver may lead to new diabetes therapies
High blood sugar is a defining characteristic of Type 2 diabetes and the cause of many of the condition's complications, including kidney failure, heart disease, and blindness. Most diabetes medications aim to maintain normal ...
Sep 3, 2015
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Overweight & Obesity
In study, skipping meals is linked to abdominal weight gain
A new study in animals suggests that skipping meals sets off a series of metabolic miscues that can result in abdominal weight gain.
May 19, 2015
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