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Blood Test That Provides Prior Blood Sugar Average Now Recommended For Diabetes Screening, Diagnosis

New official guidelines for diabetes screening and diagnosis now include a blood test that gives a person's average blood glucose level over the previous 2 - 3 months. The A1C test is not new. It has been used since the late 1970s as a way to get a snapshot of how well glucose control is going in people with...

Why diseased heart muscle cells don’t communicate properly

The heartbeat is controlled by rapid conduction of an electrical current between heart muscle cells. Central to passage of the electrical current are structures known as gap junctions, low resistance conduits that link heart muscle cells and consist of proteins known as...

Scientists discover a new family of giant virus

After Mimivirus, Mamavirus and the virophage, the group of giant viruses now has a new member called Marseillevirus. Discovered in an amoeba by the team led by Didier Raoult at the Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes research group (CNRS/Université Aix-Marseille 2), a description of this new virus was published this week on the website of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences...

Website explores pros and cons of obesity

ProCon.org, a nonpartisan 501(c)3 nonprofit public charity dedicated to promoting critical thinking, created the new website http://www.obesity.procon.org to explore the core question "Is obesity a...

Rising Mortality In Lower Income People With Diabetes Despite Drop In Overall Rate

While mortality from diabetes has declined in Canada, the income-related mortality gap is increasing, with lower income groups faring worse than higher income groups, according to a new study in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). Globally, diabetes is associated with a two-fold increase in mortality, with most of those deaths due to cardiovascular issues. Survival for people with diabetes has improved over the last 10 years, partly because of better diabetes care and a reduction...

National Council on Disability Monthly Bulletin for December, 2009

NCD - 31 Years of Disability Policy Leadership - 1978-2009 WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following is the National Council on Disability's monthly bulletin for December 2009: NCD to Release Two Reports at Houston Quarterly Meeting NCD's next quarterly meeting will take place at the JW Marriott Houston, 5150 Westheimer, Houston, TX, beginning at 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday, January 19, 2010, and ending at 11:00 a.m. on Thursday, January 21, 2010. This meeting is open to the...

Consumers to benefit from advances in chip design

Consumers will be able to fix their automobiles while the car gives step-by-step advice, attack their ailments by making computer models of various treatments to find the best one, and duck into virtual fitting rooms to try on a store's clothes without leaving...

Santarus Submits Ind for Phase III Clinical Testing of Rifamycin SV MMX in Travelers’ Diarrhea

Santarus, Inc. , a specialty biopharmaceutical company, today announced that it has submitted an Investigational New Drug application to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration requesting approval to begin a Phase III clinical program evaluating rifamycin SV MMX in patients with travelers'...

Meeting ACT1

If you’re like me — or even if you don’t spend quite as much time browsing “all things diabetes” in cyberspace — you might have noticed that the incredible proliferation of new D-blogs and online communities is making it seemingly impossible to keep up. Which is actually a wonderful thing, I suppose. Quite by accident, in...

Dentists, chiropractors and physical therapists to see rise in revenues from mid-2010: IBISWorld

With the economy showing signs of recovery, industry research firm IBISWorld analyzed more than 700 industries to identify the winning sectors in the coming...