Locals React to Obama Overturning Bush Stem Cell Policy

WASHINGTON - President Obama made good on one of his campaign promises Monday, lifting a ban on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research in his first 100 days in office.

Supporters say it could lead to cures for everything from diabetes to paralysis, but opponents say the cost, in the form of destroyed human embryos, is too high.

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Obama Expected to End Stem-Cell Funding Ban

President Barack Obama is expected Monday to announce that he is reversing an eight-year-long ban on federal funding for embryonic stem-cell research, a move that opens potential pathways to cures for serious diseases such as DIABETES.

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Researchers identify protein that may explain 'healthy' obesity

DALLAS — Jan. 29, 2009 — Mice whose fat cells were allowed to grow larger than fat cells in normal mice developed “healthy” obesity when fed a high-fat diet, researchers at
UT Southwestern Medical Center found in a new study.

The fat but healthy mice lacked a protein called collagen VI, which normally surrounds fat cells and limits how large they can grow, like a cage around a water balloon. The findings appear online... read more

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Common infant virus may cause type 1 diabetes

A harmless virus, which is encountered by most infants and displays few symptoms, may
trigger type 1 diabetes, according to a new study.

Researchers at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, who conducted the study, suggested that this “silent” Human parechovirus should be taken into consideration when looking for triggers for type 1 diabetes among those who are genetically at risk.

This study was conducted as part of a long-term project to examine if... read more

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High heart rates increase chances of obesity, diabetes

Recent research showed a connection between high resting heart rates and the development of obesity and diabetes. Dr Yoshiyuki Shigetoh and colleagues (Kurume University School of Medicine, Japan) studied the impact of higher heart rates on the body's metabolism.

Researchers followed 614 participants over a period of 20 years. The study subjects were divided in four groups on the basis of heart beat rates- under 60, 60-69, 70-79 and over 80. Analysis of data revealed... read more

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Nutrition Notes: Obesity, Diabetes and Prostate Cancer: What’s the Link?

The new findings are particularly interesting because men who have diabetes – a disease usually marked by excess weight and high insulin levels – seem to be at reduced risk of developing prostate cancer. Data from the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal and Ovarian (PLCO) Cancer Screening Trial, which followed more than 33,000 men for almost nine years, were released earlier this year and noted that men who had diabetes showed a 20 percent lower risk for... read more

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Joslin research finds nearly three-quarters of youths with diabetes insufficient in vitamin D

BOSTON – [Dec. 15, 2008] – Three-quarters of youths with type 1 diabetes were found to have insufficient levels of vitamin D, according to a study by researchers at the Joslin Diabetes Center – findings that suggest children with the disease may need vitamin D supplementation to prevent bone fragility later in life.

"To our surprise, we found extremely high rates of vitamin D inadequacy," said Lori Laffel, M.D., M.P.H., Chief of the Pediatric, Adolescent... read more

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Diabetes may be linked to risk of lymphoma

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - More cases of blood cancers classified as non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, or NHL, seem to occur among people with diabetes than those without, researchers report.

"Although the relative risk is moderate, given the rapidly increasing incidence and prevalence of diabetes, the number of incident cases of NHL attributed to diabetes can potentially be very high," Dr. Anastassios G. Pittas and colleagues point out in their report in the medical journal Diabetes Care.

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'A staggering problem'

A new study from the CDC projects that the number of adults 40 and older with diabetic retinopathy, the leading cause of blindness among working-age adults, will reach 16 million in 2050, up from 5.5 million in 2005. Diabetics are also more prone to developing cataracts and glaucoma, the study notes, and older Latinos and blacks are expected to be disproportionately affected.

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Uganda: Study Links ARVs To Diabetes

Kampala — IT IS a silent disease. Little is said about it, but, according to the World Daibetes Foundation, every 10 seconds it claims a life worldwide. Diabetes, according to medical reports, will increase by 93% by 2010 in Africa.

Figures from the diabetes foundation indicate that the disease is increasing, especially in the developing world. What is more worrying, however, is the fact that anti-retroviral drugs, used in the treatment of AIDS patients, are... read more

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