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Diabetes Trials Worldwide Are Not Addressing Key Issues In Affected Populations

Date: Apr-06-2013
Only one in ten are studying prevention while almost two thirds focus on drug therapy An analysis of diabetes trials worldwide has found they are not addressing key issues relating to the condition with almost two thirds focusing on drug therapy while only one in ten addresses prevention or behavioural therapies. The research is published in Diabetologia, the journal of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD), and is by Dr Jennifer Green, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA, and colleagues...

Negative Emotional Responses To Everyday Stressors Can Contribute To Psychological Problems Later In Life

Date: Apr-06-2013
The way in which people respond to everyday stress could be an accurate predictor of their long-term mental health, revealed a study published in the journal Psychological Science. The study, which was led by Susan Charles, UC Irvine professor of psychology & social behavior, aimed to find out whether everyday irritations can potentially harm or even strengthen us.  They gathered information from two different longitudinal surveys conducted in the U.S...

Hallucinations Of Musical Notation: New Paper For Neurology Journal Brain by Oliver Sacks

Date: Apr-06-2013
Professor of neurology, physician, and author Oliver Sacks M.D. has outlined case studies of hallucinations of musical notation, and commented on the neural basis of such hallucinations, in a new paper for the neurology journal Brain. In this paper, Dr Sacks is building on work done by Dominic ffytche et al in 2000 [i], which delineates more than a dozen types of hallucinations, particularly in relation to people with Charles Bonnet syndrome (a condition that causes patients with visual loss to have complex visual hallucinations)...

Happily Married Couples Gain More Weight

Date: Apr-06-2013
Happily married couples are more likely to gain weight, a new study in Health Psychology suggests. The research consisted of over 160 just married couples who found that the happier they were in their relationship, the more pounds they gained. During a four year time period, the couples were questioned regularly on their happiness within their marriage. They rated happiness on a scale and their height and weight was also taken...

How Training Sessions And Matches Impact On The Bodies Of Athletic Women Football Players

Date: Apr-06-2013
Researchers in the UPV/EHU's department of Physical and Sports Education have worked with 21 players in the Athletic Club women's A team. They have studied the relationship between their routine training (including the matches played) and their anthropometric measurements, parts of the body and physical performance, and the evolution in these variables. For this purpose, anthropometric and performance measurements were taken of the players at the start and at the end of the pre-season, halfway through the season, and at the end of it...

Diet As Effective As Surgery For Diabetes Patients

Date: Apr-06-2013
Patients with type 2 diabetes who follow the same strict diet required for those who undergo bariatric surgery are just as likely to see a reduction in blood glucose levels. The finding came from a new study conducted by researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center and was published in the journal Diabetes Care. Dr. Ildiko Lingvay, assistant professor of internal medicine and first author of the research, said: "For years, the question has been whether it is the bariatric surgery or a change in diet that causes the diabetes to improve so rapidly after surgery...

"Nanokicking" Stem Cells Offers Cheaper And Easier Way To Grow New Bone

Date: Apr-05-2013
Researchers in Scotland have developed a new method that coaxes stem cells into growing new bone by "nanokicking" them 1,000 times per second. They suggest the technology is cheaper and easier to implement than the current methods and opens the door to new ways of treating bone conditions like stress fractures, spinal traumas and osteoporosis. Matt Dalby from the Centre for Cell Engineering at the University of Glasgow, and colleagues, write about their work in a study that was published recently in the journal ACS Nano...

Morning-After Pill Now Available For All Ages

Date: Apr-05-2013
A federal judge ruled today that the U.S. government is required to provide the morning-after pill over the counter for all age groups - instead of asking for a prescription for girls under the age of 16. Until today, the morning-after pill has only been available to females 17 years of age or older. After a long and disputable fight, the ruling says the pill will now be sold to females of all ages without a prescription...

How Does Alzheimer's Disease Develop? New Pathway Found

Date: Apr-05-2013
A second pathway through which Alzheimer's develops has been discovered after researchers identified a new set of genetic markers for the disease. Most Alzheimer's genetic research focuses on amyloid-beta, which contributes to the formation of plaques found in the brains of people suffering from Alzheimer's. In this study, published in the journal Neuron, researchers were able to identify genes linked to the tau protein, a protein which develops in the brain as Alzheimer's slowly progresses...

Less Salt and More Potassium Reduce Risk Of Stroke

Date: Apr-05-2013
Less salt and more potassium in a person's diet can lower blood pressure and the risk of stroke. Making these simple changes can save millions of lives each year, according to new studies published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ). Scientists have known that reducing the amount of salt people eat can lower their blood pressure, which ultimately reduces the risk of heart disease and stroke. A previous study in the same journal showed that high salt intake is linked to a significantly increased risk of stroke and cardiovascular disease...