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Chronic diseases unconsciously limit mobility of older people

Chronic diseases are a key factor limiting the mobility of older people. Usually individuals are conscious of their condition in the case of an acute musculoskeletal disorder that causes pain or functional limitations.

11 Apr 2019

Molecule metabolite variations in breast milk may hold risk factors for childhood obesity

New research suggests the composition of breast milk in normal weight mothers differs from that of overweight mothers, and that variations in small molecule metabolites found in breast milk are possible risk factors for childhood obesity.

11 Apr 2019

Living transplant donors also need long-term monitoring to prevent adverse events

While organ transplant recipients receive continual care as the end-stage treatment to their condition, attention also should be given to living donors, who can suffer from hypertension, diabetes and other disorders after donation, according to a study by researchers at UC San Francisco.

11 Apr 2019

Atrium Health and Wake Forest signs MOU to create next-generation healthcare system

Atrium Health, Wake Forest Baptist Health and Wake Forest University today announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding to create a next-generation academic healthcare system.

11 Apr 2019

Researchers find presence of Aire gene in lymph nodes

The thymus is the organ in which T cells differentiate. T cells express various T cell receptors for reacting with various pathogenic microbes and viruses.

11 Apr 2019

The blame game: Everyone and no one is raising insulin prices

A casual observer of Wednesday's House Energy and Commerce subcommittee hearing might think insulin prices just go up by themselves.

11 Apr 2019

Heart attacks are more common in diabetics who are diagnosed before 40

A new study has shown that the age at which a person is diagnosed with diabetes could significantly impact the risk of heart attack or stroke.

10 Apr 2019

Study relates DNA methylation levels to obesity

DNA methylation is a mechanism that regulates whether genes are "on" or "off" and is influenced by hereditary and environmental factors, as well as lifestyle and nutritional habits.

10 Apr 2019

New molecule could help fight type 2 diabetes and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

A new molecule -EPB-53-, could help fight type 2 diabetes and the non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, according to a new study led by the team of Manuel Vázquez-Carrera, from the Faculty of Pharmacy and Food Sciences and the Institute of Biomedicine of the University of Barcelona, and the Diabetes and Associated Metabolic Diseases Networking Biomedical Research Center.

10 Apr 2019

Diet rich in animal protein linked to higher risk of death

A diet rich in animal protein and meat in particular is not good for the health, a new study from the University of Eastern Finland finds, providing further backing for earlier research evidence.

10 Apr 2019

Replacing red meat with healthy plant proteins decreases in cardiovascular disease risk factors

Diets that replaced red meat with healthy plant proteins led to decreases in risk factors for cardiovascular disease, according to a new study from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Purdue University.

10 Apr 2019

Large-scale screen efficiently identifies drugs that are potent cancer-killers

UC San Francisco scientists have designed a large-scale screen that efficiently identifies drugs that are potent cancer-killers when combined, but only weakly effective when used alone.

10 Apr 2019

Study finds increasing prevalence of COPD in nonsmokers

The global burden of COPD is high, and prevalence of nonsmokers with COPD has been increasing. In a study to be presented at CHEST Congress Thailand 2019, researchers in Nagpur, India, sought to describe the characteristics of nonsmoking patients with COPD and to determine associated comorbidities and exposures.

10 Apr 2019

Researchers develop new method for identifying compounds that prevent aging

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have developed a new method for identifying compounds that prevent aging.

9 Apr 2019

TGen review associates a gene with hepatocellular carcinoma

Hepatocellular carcinoma is a long medical name for the most common form of liver cancer, a malignancy whose incidence has nearly doubled over the past decade, making it the fastest growing type of cancer in the U.S., and the third-leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide.

9 Apr 2019

Final report from manufacturer KCI indicates greater benefit of NPWT

Negative pressure wound therapy has been used in hospitals for over 20 years; over 100 studies have been completed. However, conclusions on benefit and harm are in part uncertain because study initiators are withholding results.

9 Apr 2019

New clinical trials to investigate combination immunotherapy for treating advanced cancers

City of Hope physician-scientists recently opened two clinical trials to investigate a combination of cytokines and immunotherapy that may be able to transform nearly-impossible-to-treat cancer into a disease that can be corralled into remission.

8 Apr 2019

People under 40 diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes have excess risks of dying from or developing heart disease

People under age 40 who are diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes are more likely to have or die from cardiovascular disease than those of similar age without diabetes and the excess risks were more pronounced in younger women, according to new research in the American Heart Association's journal Circulation.

8 Apr 2019

New genetic score reliably predicts risk, severity of depression in young people

An international team led by Munich-based researchers has found a genetic score that reliably predicts the risk, severity and age of onset of depression in young people. The study also confirms a history of childhood abuse as a risk factor.

8 Apr 2019

Rising rates of liver cancer deaths largely confined to individuals with less education

A new study reveals that rising rates of liver cancer deaths in the United States have largely been confined to individuals who have received less education, especially among men.

8 Apr 2019

Diabetes News and Research

Latest Diabetes News and Research

Chronic diseases unconsciously limit mobility of older people

Molecule metabolite variations in breast milk may hold risk factors for childhood obesity

Living transplant donors also need long-term monitoring to prevent adverse events

Atrium Health and Wake Forest signs MOU to create next-generation healthcare system

Researchers find presence of Aire gene in lymph nodes

The blame game: Everyone and no one is raising insulin prices

Heart attacks are more common in diabetics who are diagnosed before 40

Study relates DNA methylation levels to obesity

New molecule could help fight type 2 diabetes and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

Diet rich in animal protein linked to higher risk of death

Replacing red meat with healthy plant proteins decreases in cardiovascular disease risk factors

Large-scale screen efficiently identifies drugs that are potent cancer-killers

Study finds increasing prevalence of COPD in nonsmokers

Researchers develop new method for identifying compounds that prevent aging

TGen review associates a gene with hepatocellular carcinoma

Final report from manufacturer KCI indicates greater benefit of NPWT

New clinical trials to investigate combination immunotherapy for treating advanced cancers

People under 40 diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes have excess risks of dying from or developing heart disease

New genetic score reliably predicts risk, severity of depression in young people

Rising rates of liver cancer deaths largely confined to individuals with less education

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