Buckwheat may be beneficial for managing diabetes
...olled 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. The study may lead to new uses of the grain as a dietary supplement o...Laboratory studies show a natural protein analog may fix insulin-making cells isolated from pancreas
...linical trials. Once again, they found that GLP-1 lowered blood sugar and increased insulin production in patients with Type 2 diabetes. But just how GLP-1 pushes cells to produce more insulin has only been partially understood. Now, laboratory research conducted at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center has shown th...Study shows combining gene therapy and radiation holds promise
...diation therapy. It also showed that the treatment lowered patients' prostate-specific antigen (PSA) and eliminated the cancer in many of them. PSA is a protein produced by the prostate. By measuring its level, doctors can monitor prostate cancer growth as well as the effectiveness of standard and investiga...After bypass surgery, women have worse quality of life than men
...hysical benefits from the surgery as men, or their lowered quality of life is less related to cardiac health than men. The results of the Duke study were published today (Nov. 24, 2003) in the journal Psychosomatic Medicine. The research was support by the National Institutes of Health and the American Heart...Major advance in chemotherapy in breast cancer
...n with early stage breast cancer by 30 percent and lowered the relative risk of the cancer returning by 28 percent when compared to a standard adjuvant (post-surgery) regimen after 55-month follow-up. The results of BCIRG 001, the first phase III study evaluating Taxotere after breast surgery, were presente...Joslin announces first international affiliate in Bahrain
...ore frequent healthcare visits and, in some cases, lowered work productivity. In some countries, insurance does not pay for all costs associated with diabetes management and education. WHO estimates that a low-income Indian family may have to allocate 25 percent of its income for the treatment of an adult w...UCSD, Salk researchers define role of abnormal muscle, fat & liver in common metabolic disorder
...l PPARgamma in these tissues. TZD treatment also lowered detrimental conditions linked to Metabolic Syndrome, specifically, high levels of free fatty acids, glucose and triglycerides. According to the researchers, this indicates that TZD treatment targeted only to fat tissue and liver may be sufficient to...Anti-eosinophil therapy shown to be effective in treating hypereosinophilic syndrome
...i-IL-5 was well tolerated in all four patients and lowered eosinophil counts despite on-going systemic steroid therapy. This decline in eosinophil counts was sustained for at least 12 weeks after the last dose of Anti-IL-5. Anti-IL-5 therapy improved the quality of life in all four patients. One patient, w...Risk for lowered cognitive performance is greater in people at high risk for stroke
... who are at higher risk for stroke are at risk for lowered cognitive function and show a pattern of deficits ...e that the link between risk for future stroke and lowered cognitive performance may be due to structural and functional changes in the brain that do not rise ...'Ding' concussions require removal from the game
... serious brain damage, worsening of symptoms and a lowered threshold for re-injury. The UPMC research team evaluated 43 high school athletes with mild concussions, all of whom were symptom-free within 15 minutes of injury, thus classified as having a grade 1 concussion, according to the commonly used Americ...Moderate-fat diet is kinder to heart than low-fat diet, study by UB researcher shows
... ratio of HDL to total and non-HDL cholesterol and lowered the concentration of triglycerides, also harmful t...diets. During the weight-loss period, both groups lowered their total and LDL cholesterol, but the low-fat group also experienced a 12 percent drop in HDL cho...Public awareness programs can reduce the duration of untreated psychosis
...ing and/or entering treatment appears to have been lowered by the ED program" ...Cool brain opens stroke treatment window, say Stanford researchers
...ody temperature while others had their temperature lowered by 4 degrees until the researchers gave Bcl-2 gene...py without cooling. However, the mice in which the lowered body temperature was followed by gene therapy had two to three times more neurons surviving two days...Cooling helmets may provide innovative stroke treatment
...ure, which measures surface brain temperature, was lowered 4.0 degrees Fahrenheit and jugular temperature, which reflects deep brain temperature, was lowered 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit. In hypothermia with a helmet, such a temperature gradient in the brain resu...Study looks at cost of high blood pressure therapy
... is not as important as getting the blood pressure lowered to the right level." Jones added that there is scientific evidence to support the selection of specific types of drugs for some patients, and that these options are clearly outlined for physicians in high blood pressure treatment guidelines issued in...News tips from the American Heart Association
...ompared to non-drinkers, but higher alcohol intake lowered them. Adiponectin also increased with higher total fat intake but not with carbohydrate intake. Further analysis found that "glycemic load" increased as adiponectin decreased. Researchers say their data suggest a link between moderate alcohol inta...Niche and higher margin esters to counter price erosion and commoditization
...emented by the World Trade Organization, which has lowered tariff barriers and created a competitive global market," says Technical Insights Analyst Rajesh Kannan. In order to survive in such a market, manufacturers in Europe are exporting certain esters such as glycerol and monohydric alcohol from their Asi...Erectile dysfunction has devastating effect on morale
... retrospect, less sensational reporting would have lowered those expectations to the patients' benefit, say the authors. Further study is needed to explore the feelings of men affected by erectile dysfunction and their perception of treatment. Health professionals should be aware of the extreme distress erec...Higher doses of cancer drug imatinib proven effective and safe
...re severe side effects, the dosage of imatinib was lowered to 600 mg or 400 mg daily for some patients, though a majority remained at the target dosage. The disease did not transform beyond the chronic phrase in any of the study patients, and 98 percent had a complete hematologic response, meaning the numbe...Exercise is key to reversing obesity-related heart risk in children
...s had significantly reduced their waist-hip ratio, lowered their total cholesterol and increased their endothelium-dependent dilation. Diet and exercise were associated with a significantly greater improvement in endothelial function than diet alone. Endothelial function in children in the diet-plus-exerci...