15th April 2011
Diabetics are still awaiting a reliable, non-invasive means of blood glucose monitoring – one that doesn't require breaking the skin or confirmation with a traditional monitoring method. The latest continuous glucose monitoring technology involves small s...
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15th April 2011
It's not widely known that large doses of insulin were commonly used in psychiatric institutions in the 1940s and 1950s to treat schizophrenia and other mental illness. Insulin shock therapy was regarded as the treatment of choice for schizophrenia for ab...
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13th April 2011
It's been called both a "dieter's dream" and a "health expert's nightmare". Marketed by Proctor & Gamble (P&G) as a fat replacer, Olestra is a chemical combination of table sugar and soy bean oil, creating a substance called "sucrose polyester". Olestra h...
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01st March 2011
Research conducted at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center raises the exciting prospect of eliminating the need for insulin in type 1 diabetics by "turning off" the hormone glucagon, which plays a major role in blood sugar regulation.
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29th June 2010
Just about everybody experiences acne during their life, but few people know why their skin breaks out, or how best to treat it. Try this quick quiz to see how much you understand about the causes of acne:
True or False?
1) Pimples are caused by an ...
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21st June 2010
Many dog owners wouldn't sleep nights if they knew there was a widespread, hidden, difficult to diagnose, hard-to-treat disease that could cause their beloved pet to drop dead with little or no warning. There is such a disease; it's dangerous; it exists y...
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