Type 2 diabetes is increasing among children all over the world
...d lack of exercise reduce the action of insulin--a hormone that allows sugar to enter cells where it can be used for energy--a condition called insulin resistance. Initially, the body compensates for the resistance by increasing production. However, over time the ability of the pancreas to increase producti...Mayo Clinic researchers report on effectiveness of treatments for hot flashes
...at recent reports of large clinical trials linking hormone therapy to an increased risk for cancer have caused concern about the use of estrogen therapy, given with or without progesterone. "Given that it has taken tens of thousands of women, studied for decades, to understand the safety of estrogen or combi...Changes in brain receptors linked to seizures and anxiety during the menstrual cycle
...urological disorders related to changes in steroid hormone levels," Mody, the study's lead researcher, said. "If some of our findings are replicated in humans, our study would provide some testable predictions about new therapies." Basing their findings on a study of the estrous cycle in mice--the equivalent...Moderate alcohol use linked to increase in breast cancer risk
...ex, type of alcoholic beverage consumed, or use of hormone replacement therapy....Failed lung cancer drug could help shrink breast tumors
...signed, state the authors. Some breast cancers are hormone sensitive and proliferate in the presence of oestr...idermal growth factor receptor) is present on some hormone sensitive breast cancers and is associated with poor prognosis and failure to respond to hormone-blo...Study concludes primary IGF-1 deficiency is a frequent cause of short stature
... in Washington, D.C., demonstrated that non-growth hormone deficient primary insulin-like growth factor-1 (IG... growth problem, including testing of their growth hormone secretion using growth hormone stimulation tests and recently, measurement of the critical growth-pr...Vitamin D, taxotere combination promising for advanced prostate cancer
...cetaxel alone. Calcitriol is a naturally occurring hormone and the biologically active form of vitamin D. "The data strongly suggest that DN-101, given in combination with docetaxel, will provide a substantial survival benefit to prostate cancer patients without adding toxicity," said Tomasz Beer, M.D., ...The link between physical activity and ovarian cancer
...activity may decrease ovarian cancer by regulating hormone and growth factor level. Physical activity also has an influence on obesity, which has been shown to increase ovarian cancer risk. "The greater risk reduction among overweight or obese women observed in our study supports the role of physical activi...Smoking increases risk for liver, pancreatic and colorectal cancers
... intake. Taking into account age, family history, hormone and aspirin use and other dietary and lifestyle factors, researchers evaluated information on 32,826 women enrolled in the Nurses' Health Study, an ongoing set of investigations examining the risk factors of major diseases for women. Researchers com...Eight aspects of early life put UK children at risk of obesity
...es. Duration of night time sleep may affect growth hormone secretion or reduce the child's exposure to food intake in the evening. Alternatively, children who are more physically active may sleep longer at night. Finally, television viewing may confer risk through a reduction in energy expenditure or an incr...Obesity is risk factor for aggressive prostate cancer
...or prostate cancer. If PSA levels are lower due to hormone changes from obesity, the prostate cancer is less ...th obesity also cause decreased levels of the male hormone testosterone. Since testosterone feeds prostate cancer, obesity could, in theory at least, reduce th...Measuring hormone cuts antibiotic use in half in pneumonia patients
SAN DIEGO-Measuring a hormone in the blood can help doctors greatly reduce the n...n the study, pneumonia patients whose level of the hormone procalcitonin was measured during the course of their illness took antibiotics an average of 6 days,...Statins underprescribed to patients at higher risk of heart disease, Stanford study says
... including the painkiller Vioxx and postmenopausal hormone therapy, were overprescribed to patients who had little to gain from them. "You have to look at drug therapy on a case-by-case basis. We have many situations where drugs are misused or overused," said lead author Jun Ma, MD, PhD, research associate a...People with diabetes more sensitive to cardiovascular effects from air pollution
...ause levels of insulin are too low. Insulin is the hormone needed to process sugars and starches into energy. Diabetes is widely recognized as one of the leading causes of death and disability in the United States, affecting some 13.3 million Americans. Research conducted in Montreal, Quebec from 1984 to 199...New insights into role of tumor necrosis factor on sex hormone production in rheumatoid arthritis
... sulfate--to biologically active DHEA, the steroid hormone parent of androgen, estrogen, and testosterone. T.... To get a clear picture of how TNF affects hormone production and regulation, the research team analyzed samples of inflamed synovial tissue--obtained ...OHSU researchers uncover cause, possible treatment for abdominal fat in postmenopausal women
... of the women involved in the study were receiving hormone replacement therapy, others were not. By analyzing...enopause is linked to an increase in a form of the hormone cortisol. Another key finding was that postmenopausal women who were not receiving hormone replacem...Tercica presents pharmacokinetic and safety data from several studies at Endocrine Society Meeting
...ren who may beinsensitive to the effects of growth hormone and therefore who likely havegrowth failure due to...f IGF-1produced by a child before and after growth hormone therapy to provide abetter measure of growth hormone sensitivity. "With the development of our POP-P...Study shows new method of growth hormone dosing improves height
...t of children who have short stature due to growth hormone deficiency and idiopathic short stature. The groun...alif., challenges traditional approaches to growth hormone (GH) administration based upon weight. The authors described a new dosing approach based on the seru...Endocrine Society honors UNC physician for key contributions to hormone research
...shed the usefulness of IGF-1 as a marker of growth hormone action and revolutionized the diagnosis of acromeg...er during which the body excessive secretes growth hormone resulting in enlargement of the hands, feet, face, tongue, jaws and internal organs. The cause is us...Tercica presents two pharmacokinetic studies in an oral session at Endocrine Society Meeting
...ulin-like Growth Factor-1 (IGF-1) is the principal hormone necessaryfor statural growth. IGF-1 is released i...e normal or elevatedsecretion of endogenous growth hormone and whose height and serum IGF-1 levelsare more than two standard deviations below the mean. A sub-...