Diabetes Worsens With Impaired Fat-Burning Gene

Diabetes Worsens With Impaired Fat-Burning Gene
Researchers at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet have in collaboration with researchers from Finland, China, Japan and the US discovered new cellular mechanisms that lead to insulin resistance in people with diabetes. The results are published in the scientific journal Cell.

Team-Based Approach Improves Diabetes Care
Due to the success of the first three years of the American College of Physicians (ACP) and the American College of Physicians Foundation (ACPF) Diabetes Initiative, the program has received additional funding from Novo Nordisk Inc. to continue the initiative for an additional two years through December 2009.

New Resource For Preventing Diabetes In African-Americans
A new diabetes prevention resource designed to encourage and help faith-based and community organizations get actively involved in deterring preventable diabetes among African-Americans was released by the National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP), a joint venture of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Institutes of Health.

Comatose locusts may help relieve human migraines

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Comatose locusts may help relieve human migraines

Comatose locusts may help relieve human migraines
Biologists link locust comas with human migraine, saying the research may lead to migraine treatment reducing painful effects of migraine.