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MSNBC
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Genes that helped early humans adapt to cold climates may be driving metabolism-related diseases such as obesity or diabetes in many countries, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.
They found a strong correlation between climate and genetic adaptations t..
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BBC News
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A pioneering treatment for diabetes is being rolled out across the country with experts believing it could eventually lead to a cure.
Six centres are receiving nearly �10m of government funding to offer transplants of insulin-producing cells.
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SF Gate
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A new study gives the strongest evidence yet that obesity surgery can cure diabetes.
Patients who had surgery to reduce the size of their stomachs were five times more likely to see their diabetes disappear over the next two years than were patients wh..
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BBC News
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Diabetes patients may soon be able to take a pill to control their condition instead of repeated injections.
UK company Diabetology, with experts at Cardiff University, says it has solved a crucial problem with oral insulin.
The capsule's special co..
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BBC News
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More evidence has emerged suggesting a link between pollutants found in oily fish and type two diabetes.
An international team found high levels of persistent organic pesticides (POPs) in the blood correlated to insulin resistance, a precursor to diabe..
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Canada.com
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In a discovery that has stunned even those behind it, scientists at a Toronto hospital say they have proof the body's nervous system helps trigger diabetes, opening the door to a potential near-cure of the disease that affects millions of Canadians...
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Canada.com
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In a discovery that has stunned even those behind it, scientists at a Toronto hospital say they have proof the body's nervous system helps trigger diabetes, opening the door to a potential near-cure of the disease that affects millions of Canadians...
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BBC News
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Skin secretions from a South American "shrinking" frog could be used to treat type 2 diabetes, researchers say.
A compound isolated from the frog, which grows to 27cm as a tadpole before shrinking to 4cm in adulthood, stimulates insulin release.
A s..
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SF Gate
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Living to 100 is easier than you might think. Surprising new research suggests that even people who develop heart disease or diabetes late in life have a decent shot at reaching the century mark.
"It has been generally assumed that living to 100 years..
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MSNBC
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An unexpected number of deaths among patients receiving intense therapy to lower their blood sugar forced the National Institutes of Health to abruptly cut short part of a major study on diabetes and heart disease.
The therapy was aimed at reducing to..
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Physorg
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Insulin, it turns out, may be as important for the mind as it is for the body. Research in the last few years has raised the possibility that Alzheimer’s memory loss could be due to a novel third form of diabetes.
Now scientists at Northwestern Univ..
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MSNBC
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Diabetes care is undergoing a transformation: Thousands of patients are switching from a few finger-pricks a day to track their disease to new sensors that keep guard around the clock.
The last six months brought boosts to the technology, as federal he..
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Washington Post
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A drug commonly used to control diabetes increases the risk of heart attacks and possibly death, researchers reported yesterday in the latest episode to raise safety concerns about a widely prescribed drug.
The drug, Avandia, which about 1 million Amer..
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CNN
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The widely prescribed diabetes drug Avandia is linked to a greater risk of heart attack and possibly death, a new scientific analysis revealed, and the U.S. government issued a safety alert Monday.
The Food and Drug Administration urged diabetics takin..
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FOX News
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New study find the majority of weight loss diets do not work and could put dieters at risk for diabetes, heart attacks and strokes, according to a published report.
Researchers at the University of California said an analysis of more than 30 studies sh..
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MSNBC
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West Virginia and Kentucky — states known for high levels of obesity, diabetes and smoking — have the highest proportion of people with heart disease in the nation, U.S. health officials said Thursday. The findings, from the first study ever to loo..
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New Scientist
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Cranberry capsules. Green tea extract. Effervescent vitamin C. Pomegranate concentrate. Beta carotene. Selenium. Grape seed extract. High-dose vitamin E. Pine bark extract. Bee spit...
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Reuters
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Adults with diabetes are more than three times more likely to rate their overall health as fair or poor than are adults without diabetes, according to a report published Thursday in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, published by the Centers for D..
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BBC News
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Scientists have used stem cells from human bone marrow to repair defective insulin-producing pancreatic cells responsible for diabetes in mice...
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CBC
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Diabetics in the United States gained a new way of controlling their blood sugar levels Tuesday with federal approval of a novel pill for Type 2 diabetes...
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