Medicine NewsMany low-income minority adults with type 2 diabetes have misconceptions about the disease that could affect its management, according to a study published in the journal Diabetes Care, Reuters Health reports. For the study, researcher Devin Mann of Mount Sinai
Scientists believe they may have found a preventative therapy for Type 1 diabetes, by making the body’s killer immune cells tolerate the insulin-producing cells they would normally attack and destroy, prior to disease onset. Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune condition, where the body attacks its own insulin producing cells. It is [...]
Predictors of atrial fibrillation (AF or afib) might offer physicians a better way to prevent stroke in blacks, according to a new study done by researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. AF is an irregular and often rapid heart rate that commonly causes poor blood flow to the body, as [...]
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Innovative programs that teach medical students and residents to more carefully prescribe medications for older patients — including elderly patients taking multiple medications — can lead to safer prescribing practices, suggest two studies presented here during the American Geriatrics Society’s Annual Scientific Meeting. All medications can cause side effects and, due to age-related [...]
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AP – Mexico readied a “temporarily closed” sign taking the drastic step of ordering a suspension of nonessential federal government and private business activity as it tried to squelch a swine flu epidemic. The World Health Organization ratcheted up an alert and warned that “all of humanity” is threatened.
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AP – From Egypt’s order that all 300,000 pigs in the country be slaughtered to travel bans and putting the kibosh on kissing, the world is taking drastic and some say debatable measures to combat swine flu.
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AP – Mexico’s health secretary may have thought he was allaying fears about swine flu when he suggested that the nation’s swine flu death rate was 6 or 7 percent. In reality, that would mean a monstrous killer virus and no experts are close to saying that. The secretary’s comment reflects how much remains [...]
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