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Diabetes: Diabetes is a disease that affects your body's ability to produce or use insulin. Insulin is a hormone. When your body turns the food you eat into energy (also called sugar or glucose), insulin is released to help transport this energy to the cells. Insulin acts as a "key." Its chemical message tells the cell to open and receive glucose. If you produce little or no insulin, or are insulin resistant, too much sugar remains in your blood. Blood glucose levels are higher than normal for individuals with diabetes. There are two main types of diabetes: Type 1 and Type 2.
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SEP 28, 2016
Cardiology
The environmental and genetic factors surrounding the combined risk of cardiovascular disease is a complicated puzzle of
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
SEP 23, 2016
Immunology
Depending on if they function correctly or not, regulatory T cells (T regs) can either help or hurt. Scientists from the
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
SEP 21, 2016
Immunology
Type 1 diabetes is caused by an autoimmune attack on the insulin-producing cells of the pancreas, called beta cells. Wit
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
SEP 21, 2016
Cardiology
Scientists from the Joslin Diabetes Center are wondering if the benefits of intensive glycemic control for people with t
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
SEP 17, 2016
Immunology
Treatment options for autoimmune diseases like multiple sclerosis (MS) are complicated, because inhibiting the immune sy
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
SEP 14, 2016
Cardiology
Besides an elevated risk for heart failure, what do thicker heart walls and a weakened pumping ability have in common? P
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
SEP 13, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
Not all fat are bad – brown fat actually act as fuel for the body to stay warm and maintain healthy weights. Now,
...
SEP 12, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
The cone snail has been recognized as a natural born killer. While it moves incredibly slowly, it doesn’t have to
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 09, 2016
Videos
The American Society for Microbiology invited Dr. Martin Blaser, the director of the Human Microbiome Program at New Yor
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 07, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
Aging has long been a bane of human existence and people seem to have tried everything to delay or stop it. Resear
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 02, 2016
Cardiology
Hydrogen sulfide gas, commonly referred to “rotten egg gas,” may be stinky, but researchers are finding that
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
AUG 29, 2016
Immunology
An enzyme thought to only be active in human metabolism found to play a dual role in the immune response. Thanks to this
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
AUG 29, 2016
Cardiology
For unknown reasons, some people are sensitive to certain medications to treat heart conditions like cardiomyopathy. Sci
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
AUG 29, 2016
Cancer
A recent study recently found that being overweight is now linked to 8 more cancers, including stomach and pancreatic ca
...
AUG 25, 2016
Immunology
What the pharmaceutical industry calls “the key to obesity” is the only hormone known to enhance appetite, a
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
AUG 23, 2016
Videos
For some people, the desire to stay young is worth the cost of all the cosmetic creams and even surgical procedures. But
...
AUG 15, 2016
Cardiology
Image Credit: Anssi Koskinen/Flickr There’s currently no treatment for cardiac fibrosis, a leading cause of heart
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
AUG 14, 2016
Immunology
Image Credit: Guilhem Vellut/Flickr The microenvironment that supports a cancerous tumor also starves the immune cells t
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
AUG 08, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
Obesity is known to increase a person’s risk for a host of diseases, including cardiovascular problems, diabetes,
...
AUG 06, 2016
Health & Medicine
As I sat at my dining room table eating an entire bag of lychees with my girlfriends, I began to question whether or not
...
Written By:
Julianne Chiaet
AUG 04, 2016
Cardiology
Findings from a new study made connections between increased low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) and triglycerid
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
AUG 03, 2016
Videos
Patients who suffer from diabetes type 2 may now have another option for their drug treatment. Last week, the Food and D
...
JUL 28, 2016
Videos
Study after study have shown that exercise is one of the best things we can do to boost our physical and mental health.
...
JUL 27, 2016
Health & Medicine
JUPITER, FL – July 27, 2016 – In addition to its more obvious ills, type 2 diabetes is a condition closely a
...
Written By:
The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI)