23
Apr

Evidence That Poor Sleep Leads To Increased Risk Of Diabetes

Laboratory and epidemiological studies continue to show that sleep loss or decreased sleep quality disturbs neuroendocrine control of appetite, leads to overeating, and decreases insulin or increase insulin resistance. These are both steps towards Type Two Diabetes. A panel of leading sleep science experts describes recent and new studies in this fast growing field.

Topics: insulin [...]

31
Mar

New Approach Discovered To Lowering Triglycerides

Studies done with laboratory rats suggest that supplementation of their diet with lipoic acid had a significant effect in lowering triglycerides, which along with cholesterol levels and blood pressure are one of the key risk factors in cardiovascular disease. In the lab animals, supplements of lipoic acid lowered triglyceride levels up to [...]

22
Mar

Prosthetic Implants To Prevent Blindness

Blindness in millions of patients with diseases that starve eye tissue and nerves of oxygen might be averted with a procedure being developed by scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the University of Southern California and the University of Tennessee. The technique uses a new class of smart prosthetic implants to provide [...]

17
Mar

Stem Cells Crucial To Diabetes Cure In Mice

More than five years ago, Dr. Lawrence C.B. Chan and colleagues in his Baylor College of Medicine laboratory cured mice with Type One Diabetes by using a gene to induce liver cells to make insulin. “Now we know how it works,” said Chan, director of the federally designed Diabetes and Endocrinology Research [...]