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New Vegetarian Food With Health Benefits

Saturday, May 31st, 2008 - 17:30:02 - Ehud Rattner

A new vegetarian food that boosts the uptake of iron and offers a good set of proteins. This could be the result of a doctoral dissertation by...

New Way to Increase Metabolism Discovered

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 - 10:43:19 - Ehud Rattner

Scientists from Melbourne’s Howard Florey Institute have discovered a way to aid weight loss and reduce the likelihood of developing diabetes by...

Sweet Hope for Type 1 Diabetics
Friday, April 18th, 2008 - Einat Rotman
Researchers at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) in Boston have found a three-drug therapy, which is...

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Pig Cell Transplants Help Counter Diabetes

Sunday, April 13th, 2008 - 10:11:43 - Ehud Rattner

People with type 1 diabetes need insulin, and one way of providing it would be to transplant the cells that produce it from newly born pigs. In a...

Lowering Cholesterol Help Fight Diabetes

Thursday, April 10th, 2008 - 14:40:12 - Iddo Genuth

Aggressively lowering cholesterol and blood pressure levels below current targets in adults with type 2 diabetes may help to prevent — and possibly...

Grape Skin Compound Fights Diabetes

Thursday, March 20th, 2008 - 12:59:59 - Ehud Rattner

Resveratrol in grape skins could stop diabetic complications such as heart disease, retinopathy and nephropathy, research finds. Research carried out...

A Sweet Success for Embryonic Stem Cells

Thursday, February 21st, 2008 - 23:55:01 - Sarah Gingichashvili

Scientists have for the first time prodded human embryonic stem cells to become functional pancreatic cells. The work, published online today in...

Insulin Nanodrug Under Development
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007 - Asaf Peer
Insulin, a hormone secreted by the pancreas, controls the level of sugar in the blood. Diabetic people suffer from low...