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New clinical trial offers hope to diabetics!
2006-12-13 17:18:06 Ninemsn - Hope s for a vaccine to guard against juvenile diabetes have been boosted with the launch of a ground-breaking clinical trial in Melbourne.The trial will use insulin administered with a nasal spray to children and young adults who are genetically predisposed to developing Type 1 diabetes.If successful, researchers believe it could offer thousands of children protection from the disease, and the opportunity to avoid a life of constant blood-sugar monitoring, insulin injections and a regimented diet.Researchers from the University of Melbourne's Diabetes Vaccine Development Centre are seeking 13,000 people aged between four and 30 who have a blood relative with Type 1 diabetes - and a higher risk of developing the disease - to undergo screening for the trial.From those, it is expected about two per cent will be eligible to take part in the trial.Read more? More About: Trial , Offers , Tria , Rial
Obesity and Diabetes
2006-12-13 17:18:06 There is growing evidence of the link between obesity and diabetes. In this video, Dr. Sudesh Kumar from University Hospital of Coventry and Warwickshire, explains the relationship between obesity and diabetes and how scientists are helping doctors to better diagnose and treat both these conditions. The Links Between Obesity And Diabetes - video powered by Metacafe
Get scanned to know your health risks!
2006-12-13 17:18:06 BBC News - A scan can spot which people harbour dangerous levels of fat around their vital internal organs, scientists say.Hammersmith Hospital, in west London, is currently the only hospital in Europe using the MRI scan.Its scientists say 40% of the population has ?bad? fat around the heart, liver or pancreas, even though many appear thin.They warn it is possible to be slim and yet still be at risk of conditions like diabetes because of "hidden" fat.Evidence suggests the precise location of fat has more of a bearing on health than simply being overweight.For example, people who have too much weight around their middle, often called an "apple" shape, have a greater risk of developing heart disease and type 2 diabetes than those who are pear shaped and carry the weight around the hips.While doctors can check whether a person is a healthy weight for their height by calculating their body mass index or BMI (weight in kilograms divided by height in metres squared), they cannot see the d... More About: Health , Your , Risk , Cann , Know
Skin disorders ? yet another problem caused by stress!
2006-12-13 17:18:06 LiveScience - Scientists have long sought to learn whether and how stress can lead to skin problems. A new study in mice shows that a stress-triggered hormone could worsen or even cause skin disorders like psoriasis and eczema.The scientists found that blocking the hormone called glucocorticoid?which increases in stressful times?resulted in better skin.Understanding how glucocorticoids work could help scientists come up with ways to prevent human skin problems triggered by psychological stress, said lead researcher Kenneth Feingold of the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco and the University of California at San Francisco."Here you have things going on in your mind that affect what's going on in your skin," Feingold told LiveScience.The outermost layer of your skin, the epidermis, is composed of dead skin cells, which form a permeability barrier to prevent water loss. Every day tens of thousands of these dead cells slough off as tiny flakes. Typically, cells at the bott... More About: Skin , Other , Stress , Problem , Another
Does the sudden lull in the spread of H5N1 signal an outbrea
2006-12-13 17:18:06 Cattle Network - Earlier this year, bird flu panic was in full swing: The French feared for their foie gras, the Swiss locked their chickens indoors, and Americans enlisted prison inmates in Alaska to help spot infected wild birds. With the feared H5N1 virus - previously confined to Southeast Asia - striking birds in places as diverse as Germany, Egypt, and Nigeria, it seemed inevitable that a flu pandemic would erupt. Then the virus went quiet. Except for a steady stream of human cases from Indonesia, the current bird flu epicenter, the past year?s worries about a catastrophic global flu outbreak largely disappeared from the radar screen. Part of the explanation may be seasonal. Bird flu tends to be most active in the colder months, as the virus survives longer at low temperatures. ?Many of us are holding our breaths to see what happens in the winter, ?said Dr. Malik Peiris, a microbiology professor at Hong Kong University. ?H5N1 spread very rapidly last year,? Peiris notes, ?so th... More About: Read , Sign , Signal , Spread , Brea
Canadian study reports that boys are at a greater risk to hy
2006-12-13 17:18:06 Medindia.com - A Canadian Study finds that adolescence boys are at higher risk for high blood pressure than girls of the same age. Researchers have found that the seeds of hypertension and its health effects start before adulthood. Cardiologists say that smoking, stress management, lack of exercise, obesity are some of the factors for the cause of high blood pressure, which can result in heart damages. In the study which began in 1999, Dr. Kaberi Dasgupta, a physician at the McGill University Health Centre in Montreal and her colleagues studied around 1300 Montreal teenagers (614 boys and 653 girls) and found that the risk for elevated systolic blood pressure remained stable among teen girls while the risk for boys rose over time. (Systolic pressure is the top number in the ratio, over Diastolic). Dr. Dasgupta added that ?By the age of 15, the boys were twice as likely as the girls, and by 17 they were two and half times as likely as the girls, to have a blood pressure" in the top r... More About: Great , Report , Port , Hat
Attitude towards cosmetic surgery is changing: Study
2006-12-13 17:18:06 Business Standard - The thirties are the new twenties and the sixties the new middle age, if the findings of a recent AC Nielsen study are anything to go by. In an Internet study conducted across 41 markets globally, 22,780 consumers were asked about their attitude towards age and cosmetic surgery. The rush to turn back the clock is most keenly felt by consumers across Europe and Asia Pacific. Of the top 10 markets, which agreed that the forties were the new thirties, Austria topped the list, while among the Asia-Pacific countries, which included Japan and Korea, India emerged one of the top ten.Close to 70 per cent of Indians, both men and women agreed that the thirties were the new twenties and the forties were the new thirties compared with the global average of about 60 per cent.When it came to terming the sixties as the new middle age, women, with 64 per cent of them agreeing, substantially outnumbered men, of whom 47 per cent agreed to the proposition.East Asian countries such... More About: Cosmetic , Study , Cosmetic Surgery , War , Surgery
Sleep-disorders are common in overweight children
2006-12-13 17:18:06 Medindia.com - One-fourth of overweight children may have sleep problems that regular physical activity can largely resolve, researchers say. Research published in the November issue of Obesity shows a surprising 25 out of 100 overweight, inactive children tested positive for sleep-disordered breathing, including telltale snoring. After about three months of vigorous after-school physical activity such as jumping rope, basketball and tag games and the number of children who tested positive for a sleep disorder was cut in half, according to lead researcher, Dr. Catherine L. Davis. In children who exercised the longest, the number was reduced by 80 percent.The children were among 100 black and white boys and girls ages 7 to 11 enrolled in a study looking at the effect of exercise on metabolism. For the purposes of that study, the children were divided into three groups: a control group as well as those who exercised 20 or 40 minutes daily. In fact researchers found the average score f... More About: Children , Weight , Common , Sleep , Child
Mild untreated hypertension in children could lead to enlarg
2006-12-13 17:18:06 United Press International - In children, even mild untreated high blood pressure can lead to a potentially dangerous enlargement of the heart, according to a U.S. study.Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Child ren 's Center and the Children's Hospital at Montefiore in New York City say persistently elevated blood pressure is a well-known risk factor for left-ventricular hypertrophy, or LVH, a thickening or enlarging of the lower left chamber of the heart. Pediatric guidelines say that any elevation in pressure measured in children on three consecutive office visits is by definition evidence of hypertension."It's apparently not true for children, at least, that the higher the blood pressure the worse the strain on the heart, and that surprised us," says kidney specialist Dr. Tammy Brady, Johns Hopkins Children's Center. "In this study, children with minimally high, very high and severely high blood pressure had evidence of heart enlargement."Read more? More About: Tension , Hype , Hypertension
Why obesity is a major health concern?
2006-12-13 17:18:06 Watch this video made on the 'obesity problem' in US. You will realize why obesity is considered as a major health concern around the globe. More About: Health , Obesity , Once , Major , Heal
Scientists establish link between Alzheimer?s and heart dise
2006-12-13 17:18:06 BBC News- Scientist s have discovered how heart disease or a stroke may trigger Alzheimer's disease.Both conditions lead to a reduction of oxygen flow to the brain.A University of British Columbia team, studying mice, found this stimulates increased development of the protein clumps thought to cause Alzheimer's.The lack of oxygen increases activity in a gene controlling production of the key protein, found the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences study.This protein, beta amyloid, collects in knots in the brains of people with Alzheimer's disease, and is thought to cause damage to the brain cells.The gene identified in the latest study, BACE1, is responsible for regulating the maturation of beta amyloid.Read more? More About: Hear , Link , Heart , Between
Early intervention helps children with autism
2006-12-13 17:18:06 ksl.com - The increasing number of children with autism is disturbing. One out of every 166 children may have some form of autism.Utah has a high prevalence of autism, and there is also important research going on here.There are several interesting studies about early diagnosis and brain imaging.Autism is a complex developmental disability that usually appears during the first three years of life. It's called a spectrum disorder, meaning there can be a variety of symptoms and severity.Doctors don't know what causes it, but we do know it's difficult for families who have children with autism.Four year old Savannah does not speak, although she signs a few words. Her lack of language is one symptom of autism. Another is that she seems to withdraw and does not relate to people.Emilie Tanner, Mother: "She just wants to be left alone. She doesn't do a lot with eye contact. She doesn't play with other kids."Emilie understood the symptoms because her 5-year-old son Ethan also has autis... More About: Children , Inter , With , Child
Job stress and diabetes
2006-12-13 17:18:06 CBS News ? A new study shows that workers suffering from job burnout may be more likely to be diagnosed with Type-2 diabetes. The study, published in Psychosomatic Medicine, comes from Israeli researchers who included Samuel Melamed, Ph.D., of Tel Aviv University's medical school.The researchers studied 677 employed men and women in Israel for three to five years. When the study started, participants were about 42 years old, on average. They were "apparently healthy," the researchers note.The workers, who were employed by several companies, were split into five groups, based on job type:Senior managementMiddle managementProfessionals (including engineers, teachers, lab technicians, and computer workers) Non-professional workersSelf-employed workers Read more? More About: Diabetes , Stress , Tres
Moderate drinking reduces the risk of death!
More articles from this author:2006-12-13 17:18:06 Scientific American - Moderate drinking may lengthen your life, while too much may shorten it, researchers from Italy report. Their conclusion is based on pooled data from 34 large studies involving more than one million people and 94,000 deaths.According to the data, drinking a moderate amount of alcohol -- up to four drinks per day in men and two drinks per day in women -- reduces the risk of death from any cause by roughly 18 percent, the team reports in the Archives of Internal Medicine.However, "things radically change" when consumption goes beyond these levels, study leader Dr. Augusto Di Castelnuovo, from Catholic University of Campobasso, said in a statement.Men who have more than four drinks per day and women who have more than two drinks per day not only lose the protection that alcohol affords, but they increase their risk of death, the data indicate.The reason why men are protected at up to four drinks per day, while women lose the protection after two glasses has to do ... More About: Drink , Drinking , Death , Risk , Reduce 1, 2, 3 |
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