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Keep salt and sugar separate to improve diabetes treatment
Culture

Keep salt and sugar separate to improve diabetes treatment

Researchers from the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research, known as Inserm, have shown that gastric bypass surgery,…
Enzyme could offer treatment hope for sleep apnea sufferers
Health & Fitness

Enzyme could offer treatment hope for sleep apnea sufferers

Scottish researchers have pinpointed an enzyme that helps speed up breathing when oxygen levels are low. This could offer new…
Overweight young adults can reduce diabetes risk if they lose weight early enough: study
Health & Fitness

Overweight young adults can reduce diabetes risk if they lose weight early enough: study

New research has found that the risk of diabetes associated with obesity can be reversed if obese young people make…
Type 2 diabetes increases dementia risk
Health & Fitness

Type 2 diabetes increases dementia risk

People with type 2 diabetes are at higher risk for dementia in general. And for one form, called vascular dementia,…
Home for the Holidays? Hold the sugar, please
Health & Fitness

Home for the Holidays? Hold the sugar, please

Bagged or boxed, brown or powdered, Americans are buying markedly less sugar this year, a trend nowhere more noticeable than…
Health Ministry approves new diabetes drug
Egypt

Health Ministry approves new diabetes drug

The Health and Population Ministry approved Wednesday a new drug to adjust the level of blood sugar over a 24-hour…
Drinking coffee tied to lower risk of death
Life & Style

Drinking coffee tied to lower risk of death

In a 10-year U.S. study, people who drank coffee regularly were less likely to die of many causes, including heart…
Beyond Fitbit: The quest to develop medical-grade wearables
Science

Beyond Fitbit: The quest to develop medical-grade wearables

A new wave of wearable computing devices that detect and monitor serious diseases is moving from the laboratory to the…
Brief periods of standing, walking tied to better blood sugar
Health & Fitness

Brief periods of standing, walking tied to better blood sugar

Older women at risk for type 2 diabetes may want to break up prolonged periods of sitting by standing or…
Once-a-week diabetes meds are similar in safety and effectiveness
Health & Fitness

Once-a-week diabetes meds are similar in safety and effectiveness

There's little difference in the performance of five new once-a-week drugs to treat diabetes when they're compared to one another,…
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