Topic: Oceania
A drug known as sulodexide has failed to show any benefit toward halting kidney failure in people with diabetes and an international trial has been stopped early, a US medical journal said Thursday.The drug, once seen as a potentially promising treatment to ...
On Tonga's supermarket shelves, huge cans of corned beef the size of paint tins replaced traditional fare such as fish and coconuts long ago -- contributing to an obesity epidemic that sees the Pacific region ranked as the fattest in the world.Meat ...
Serpentine Gemstones seem of its name fromthe word serpent as it resembles of its color and markings resembled the skinof snake. The rare types of serpentine such as ?williamsite' which is darker incolor and having a very dark green hue and tiny ...
""Oh no" I seemed to scream , but it was only in my head, did the doctor just say that I had Diabetes.I had just lost my sister who had suffered terribly from Diabetes Mellitus disease and I definitely was not prepared ...
Researchers at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research are blaming the adoption of a Westernized diet and the influx of fast-food restaurants for an increase in type 2 diabetes in Southeast Asia.. The findings, published in the journal Diabetologia, reveal 11 percent ...
Young people with type 1 diabetes report levels of psychosocial well-being at diagnosis similar to those of their peers without diabetes, but over time they are more likely to experience higher rates of psychiatric morbidity and lower rates of school completion, and ...
Australia Diabetes Care Devices Market Outlook GlobalData's medical equipment offering, "Australia Diabetes Care Devices Market Outlook to 2016" provides key market data on the Australia diabetes care devices market. The report provides value (USD million), volume (units) and average price (USD) data ...
Living Cell Technologies Confirms Safety and Proof of Principle of Efficacy in its Penultimate Data Analysis from its Russian Human Phase I/IIa Trial with DIABECELL? in Diabetics. DIABECELL? Successfully Meets End Points for Safety and Tolerability; Shows Proof of Principle of Efficacy ...
While partisan rancor over health care continues in the U.S., Australia is forging its own health care path. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd outlined the strain that diabetics place on Australia's health care system: "In 2007-08, around 237,000 hospital admissions were related to ...
African-Americans with type 1 diabetes are at higher risk of developing diabetic retinopathy if they have a high caloric intake, according to a study in the January issue of the Archives of Ophthalmology. In a related study in the same issue, signs ...