US scientists have recently identified a possible genetic link between diabetes and Alzheimer’s disease. It has been known for some time that people with diabetes have a much higher risk of developing Alzheimer’s, but not why this is so. Now researchers writing in Genetics say a study of worms has indicated a known Alzheimer’s gene [...]
An anonymous author who works in the pharmaceutical industry wrote several anonymous editorials in this weeks British Medical Journal in which they claim: “Some of the [post-marketing] studies I worked on were not designed to determine the overall risk/benefit balance of the drug in the general population. They were designed to support and disseminate a [...]
A new study, published this week in the journal Cell Host & Microbe, indicates that bowel may play an important role in the development of diabetes. This is a new and somehow surprising approach to diabetes, since until now most of the studies have focused on pancreas and liver. Pancreas produces insulin, the hormone that [...]
Guinea-Bissau’s leader Malam Bacai Sanha has died at 64 in hospital in Paris, national radio reports. President Malam Bacai Sanha had travelled to France for medical treatment in late November after being taken seriously ill. He was the president of Guinea-Bissau since 8 September 2009. A member of the African Party for the Independence of [...]
The circadian rhythm (time clock) of human body has to be respected in order to be in a good state of health. Repeated lack of sleep, working at night can lead to obesity, high blood pressure, heart disease, high blood sugar, type 2 diabetes and depression. Researchers from Boston, Massachusetts, have conducted a study that [...]
There were studies suggesting that diabetes increases a person’s lifetime risk of developing thyroid cancer, and a new report published shows this linkage for retirement-age Americans. The medical scientists found that if a person between 50 and 71 years old has diabetes the 10-year risk of thyroid cancer is increased by one-quarter. The researchers [...]
A report of Alzheimer’s disease International (ADI) published in 2009, said there were 35.6 million people were with dementia and Alzheimer’s and it was expected that the number would increase to 65.7 million by 2030. Alzheimer’s is a type of dementia that is a collective name for progressive degenerative brain syndromes. They affect memory, [...]
The data that show association between Alzheimer’s disease and type 2 diabetes increased over the years. Japanese scientists make the evidence stronger with a study (Glucose tolerance status and risk of dementia in the community) which has been published this week in the journal Neurology. The prospective cohort study of dementia was performed in [...]
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