Walking Can Lower Risk of Heart-Related Conditions Equal To Running

Apr. 12 | According to surprising findings reported in the American Heart Association journal Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology, walking briskly can lower your risk of high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes as much as running can. Researchers...

Saroglitazar From Diabetic Capital Of India

Mar. 21 | Pharma major Cadila Healthcare has been working on a molecule for diabetes dyslipidemia, to be called ‘Saroglitizar’. The name is believed to have been derived from the Gujarati word ‘saro’, meaning good. The company may soon become...

Bodies Store Fats At Night If You Eat After Your Dinner

Feb. 23 | A new study published in The Journal Current Biology is the first to draw the connection between our circadian rhythm and insulin activity. The findings suggest that a disruption in that rhythm can lead to obesity and increase the risk for diabetes and...

Pesticides Could Trigger Type-2 Diabetes

Feb. 19 | A new Spanish research study has found that pesticides in food, air and water may be directly linked with the development of type 2 diabetes, regardless of a person’s age, gender or body mass index. These substances tend to concentrate in body fat,...

Control Alcohol And Diet To Avoid Cancer

Feb. 6 | About two-thirds of the cancer cases in India can be prevented either by making effective policies or better implementation of the existing ones, say experts. What’s more, a grip on alcohol consumption and obesity can help prevent a large percentage...

GSK Refuses To Settle Over Dangerous Diabetes Drug Avandia In UK

Jan. 31 | The families in the UK could be deprived of compensation for the death or harm of a relative caused by the diabetes drug Avandia, even though the British maker has agreed to pay billions of dollars to settle similar claims in the US. The licence for Avandia...

Diabetes Drug May Restore Memory In Alzheimer’s

Dec. 20 | According to a research paper published online in The Journal of Neuroscience, researchers in Canada have discovered a drug originally intended for the treatment of diabetes may restore memory in brain cells affected by Alzheimer’s disease. In tests...

Two New Diabetes Drugs Have Different Advantages

Dec. 18 | The two new type 2 diabetes drugs produced mixed results while comparing the advantage of one over the other. In the study, liraglutide (Victoza) was somewhat better than the other drug, exenatide (Bydureon), in lowering blood sugar and weight, but Bydureon...

Brown Medical School’s Alzheimer’s And Type 3 Diabetes

Oct. 11 | The question “is Alzheimer’s disease really a form of diabetes?” looks quite intriguing calling it a type 3. But this is what a Brown Medical School researcher dubbed it back in 2005 when she autopsied the brains of Alzheimer’s patients and found...

High-Fat Diet and Estrogen Loss Leads Women To Store More Abdominal Fat Than Men

Sep. 28 | A new study suggests how a high-fat diet triggers chemical reactions in female mice that could explain why women are more likely than men to gain fat in the abdomen after eating excess saturated fat. The study also sheds light on why women gain fat following...