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| BUCKWHEAT MAY BE BENEFICIAL FOR MANAGING DIABETES |
| Researchers in Canada have found new evidence that buckwheat, a grain used in making pancakes and soba noodles, may be beneficial in the management of diabetes. In a controlled study, they showed that extracts of the seed lowered blood glucose levels by 12 percent to 19 percent when fed to diabetic rats. The report comes at a particularly appropriate time since November is National Diabetes Awareness Month. |
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| WHAT MAKES THE BODY ABSORB TOO MUCH IRON? RESEARCHERS AT EMBL AND HARVARD GAIN NEW INSIGHTS INTO THE MOST COMMON INHERITED DISEASE IN THE WESTERN WORL |
| Like most nutrients, iron is good for people - in the right doses. When the body has enough iron, our cells stop absorbing it from food; if there is too little, they absorb more. This system breaks down in the most common inherited disease in the Western world: hemochromatosis, which affects about one in every 250 people and is often fatal if it is not recognized and treated. Now researchers at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg (EMBL) and Harvard Medical School (U.S.) have linked the response of a gene in the liver to the disease. The study, which appears in the current issue of Nature Genetics, is changing our understanding of how hemochromatosis develops. |
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| TIME FOR NEEDLE-FREE DIABETES MANAGEMENT |
| Diabetics are one step closer to blood-free glucose testing, with new developments to a wrist device that can 'suck' fluid through the skin presented to a British conference this week.
Professor Richard Guy and colleagues, from the University of Geneva in Switzerland, announced a new calibration method for the device, called 'GlucoWatch'. |
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| IS THIS THE CELL THAT COULD REVOLUTIONISE MEDICINE? |
| IT MIGHT turn out to be the most important cell ever discovered. It's a stem cell found in adults that can turn into every single tissue in the body.
Until now, only stem cells from early embryos were thought to be able to do this. If the finding is confirmed, it will mean cells from your own body could one day be turned into all sorts of perfectly matched replacement tissues and even organs. |
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| BLOOD VESSELS GROWN IN LIVE ANIMALS |
| Biomedical engineers at the University of Michigan have grown a healthy network of blood vessels in live animals using implants that deliver critical growth enzymes sequentially as in nature. |
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| HERBAL OILS MAY ENHANCE INSULIN SENSITIVITY AND LOWER BLOOD PRESSURE IN DIABETIC RATS |
| Research at Georgetown University Medical Center has found that a combination of naturally occurring edible oils may be effective in treating Type II diabetes. These findings will be presented at the American College of Nutrition's annual meeting October 6 and 7 in Orlando, Fla. Harry G. Preuss, MD, MACN, CNS, professor of physiology and biophysics at Georgetown and the lead investigator of this study, and his research team, examined the effects of a combination of edible oils from fenugreek, cumin, pumpkin seed and oregano on rats that have been specifically bred to show many of the characteristics of type 2 diabetes. |
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| LEPTIN AND OBESITY: ALL IN THE HEAD? |
| In the absence of leptin signaling, mice, like humans, grow extremely obese and develop many of the common sequellae of obesity in humans, such as diabetes and steatosis of the liver. Introduction of leptin directly into the hypothalamus potently reverses the overeating and obesity seen in leptin-deficient animals. |
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| COUNSELING CAN HELP LOWER BLOOD PRESSURE |
| Counseling programs can help people control their blood pressure according to a new analysis of studies on behavioral strategies that can be used in conjunction with medication. |
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| STUDY PROVIDES NEW EVIDENCE THAT CHEMICAL IN TOMATO SAUCE MAY HELP FIGHT PROSTATE CANCER, PARTICULARLY IN BLACK MEN |
| A new study involving African-American men - who as a group have the highest incidence of prostate cancer in the world - provides further evidence that lycopene, a chemical found in abundance in tomato sauce, may help prevent or slow the development of the disease. The clinical study was reported 29/08 at the 222nd national meeting of the American Chemical Society, the world’s largest scientific society. |
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| CIGS AND BOOZE A BAD COMBINATION |
| The interactive effects of smoking and drinking are not good news for smokers.
People who drink and smoke have to drink more booze to feel drunk than non-smoking drinkers – placing them at greater risk of damage to their brains, livers and hearts, a new study suggests. |
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| ANTI-AIDS DRUG LEAVES AN CROP GLAND IMPORTANT ORGAN UNPROTECTED FROM VIRUS ATTACK |
| A drug, which allows to slow down the development of the HIV infection inducing AIDS, doesn't help to prevent a damage of an organ, bolstering organism's immune system, by a virus. |
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