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An international panel of experts from four renowned diabetes research centers, including UT Southwestern Medical Center, has reviewed current literature and is recommending a pivotal change in treatment of Type 2 diabetes to focus on obesity first and glucose control second. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-weight-loss-central-focus-diabetes.html

A new comprehensive Consensus Report to manage type 1 diabetes (T1D) is today being launched by two leading diabetes societies—the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) and the American Diabetes Association (ADA). The final report, launched at the online annual meeting of EASD this week, is also published in Diabetologia (the official journal of EASD) and Diabetes Care (the official journal of ADA). source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-comprehensive-consensus-diabetes-major-organisations.html

The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in worsening diabetes care and management across the USA in those with and without COVID-19 infections, according to the first-of-its kind survey looking at the impact of the pandemic on socioeconomic, clinical, and lifestyle aspects of diabetes management. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-survey-highlights-considerable-gaps-diabetes.html

The huge and growing burden of treatment needed for survivors of COVID-19 with diabetes in primary care is the subject of a special session on the infection at this year's Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD), given by Professor Kamlesh Khunti of the Diabetes Research Centre, University of Leicester, UK. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-huge-primary-people-diabetes-survived.html

The latest update to a large and continuing review and meta-analysis of studies of COVID-19 and diabetes confirms that patients with a more advanced course of diabetes have a higher risk of death when infected with SARS-CoV-2. The new data are being presented at this year's annual meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD). source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-analysis-multiple-covid-diabetes-diabetes.html

Researchers from the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health have advanced understanding of the biological mechanisms underlying a rare neurological disease called Multiple System Atrophy (MSA), finding evidence of brain iron accumulation in animal models of the condition. The team's work opens new pathways to investigate and advance therapeutic options in MSA that target iron overload in the brain. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-brain-iron-multiple-atrophy-therapeutic.html

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), commonly referred to as simply "lupus," is an autoimmune disorder where the body's immune system attacks healthy tissue. Lupus affects somewhere between 20 to 150 people per 100,000, with variations among different racial and ethnic groups. The disease often causes arthritic symptoms in the joints, which can be debilitating in some cases. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-lupus-arthritis-frequency-domain-optical.html

According to research, an average American makes around 35,000 decisions each day. These decisions range from the mundane—what color shirt to wear—to the important—whether or not to be vaccinated. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-choices-individualistic.html

Russia on Thursday reported its highest coronavirus death toll for a third day in a row, as infections spike driven by the contagious Delta variant and slow vaccination rates. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-russia-virus-deaths-day-1.html

Understanding how the human brain produces complex thought is daunting given its intricacy and scale. The brain contains approximately 100 billion neurons that coordinate activity through 100 trillion connections, and those connections are organized into networks that are often similar from one person to the next. A Dartmouth study has found a new way to look at brain networks using the mathematical notion of fractals, to convey communication patterns between different brain regions as people listened to a short story. The results are published in Nature Communications. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-fractal-brain-networks-complex-thought.html

Patients using take-home technology following non-elective surgery resulted in significantly greater detection and correction of drug errors, and reduction in patients' pain, says a national study led by Hamilton researchers. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-virtual-remote-drug-errors-patient.html

Vietnam will lift the lockdown in its largest city on Friday, ending nearly three months of restrictions on movement to curb a coronavirus surge. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-vietnam-virus-lockdown-largest-city.html

Am I fully vaccinated without a COVID-19 vaccine booster? source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-fully-vaccinated-covid-vaccine-booster.html

Living through the coronavirus pandemic in Singapore, Joys Tan followed the rules that helped the city-state keep its cases low: keeping her distance from others, wearing a mask and getting herself vaccinated. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-covid-singapore-strategy.html

She lived a life of adventure that spanned two continents. She fell in love with a World War II fighter pilot, barely escaped Europe ahead of Benito Mussolini's fascists, ground steel for the U.S. war effort and advocated for her disabled daughter in a far less enlightened time. She was, her daughter said, someone who didn't make a habit of giving up. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-woman-survived-spanish-flu-world.html

The use of legal drugs (tobacco and alcohol) may lead to the use of cannabis, a new study led by the University of Bristol and published in the journal Addiction has found. The study also found evidence that cannabis use may lead to smoking initiation, and opioid dependence could lead to increased alcohol consumption. Additionally, there might be shared risk factors that influence the use of multiple substances. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-tobacco-alcohol-likelihood-illegal-drugs.html

A new study has found that a child's reading speed can be improved by simply increasing the space between letters within a piece of text. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-extra-spacing-boost-children.html

People who had higher pre-pandemic levels of depression or anxiety have been more severely affected by disruption to jobs and healthcare during the pandemic, according to a new study co-led by UCL researchers. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-people-prior-mental-ill-health.html

Young people who are repeatedly bullied by siblings are more likely to suffer from poor mental health and wellbeing issues later in adolescence, a new study has suggested. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-sibling-bullying-poor-mental-health.html

The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on type 1 diabetes (T1D) and type 2 diabetes (T2D) were very different, according to a systematic review and meta-analysis of 33 studies looking at how diabetes control changed with the onset of lockdowns in over 4,700 patients from 10 countries. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-covid-lockdowns-major-impact-diabetes.html

New research being presented at the Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD), held online this year, found a link between larger waistlines and the progression of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) in people with type 2 diabetes (T2D). source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-bigger-waistlines-liver-people-diabetes.html

New research being presented at the Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD), held online this year, found that men who are diagnosed with type 2 diabetes (T2D) at a young age are more likely to develop retinopathy than those diagnosed aged 50-plus. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-men-young-onset-diabetes-higher-retinopathy.html

New research being presented at the Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD), held online this year, shows that there are marked socio-economic inequalities in the prevalence of (the proportion of people with) type 2 diabetes (T2D) in Scotland—and the gap is widening. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-diabetes-widens-rich-poor-scotland.html

Almost three in ten people with type 2 diabetes (T2D) in Scotland were prescribed antidepressants before they were diagnosed with diabetes, according to new research being presented at the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) conference, held online this year. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-prescription-antidepressant-antipsychotic-drugs-common.html

Could living at high altitudes affect your chance of suffering a stroke? This intriguing question is at the heart of a new study in open-access journal Frontiers in Physiology. The study is the first to examine the incidence of stroke-related hospitalization and death in people living at four different elevations in Ecuador, and includes data gathered over 17 years on more than 100,000 stroke patients. Strikingly, the study finds that people living at higher altitudes have a lower risk of stroke and stroke-related death, and that this protective effect is strongest at between 2,000 and 3,500 meters. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-high-altitudes-chance-deadly.html

A COVID-19 treatment using monoclonal antibodies is one step closer thanks to the efforts of Australian researchers. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-melbourne-made-covid-treatment-future-proof-australia.html

A research team led by scientists at Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) has developed a novel cell sensor with a barcode-like micro-channel structure that enables rapid and low-cost screening of drug-resistant bacteria. The invention could potentially be used on a large-scale in resource-limited situations such as frequent safety screenings of water, food and public facilities, as well as urgent surveys of massive samples during an infectious disease outbreak, particularly in developing countries. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-cell-sensor-rapid-low-cost-screening.html

Worms don't wiggle when they have Alzheimer's disease. Yet something helped worms with the disease hold onto their wiggle in Professor Jessica Tanis's lab at the University of Delaware. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-vitamin-b12-alzheimer-worms-intriguing.html

COVID-19 vaccines offer protection against life-threatening disease caused by the coronavirus to people with heart disease and stroke, and a booster dose could bolster that protection, health experts said. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-heart-patients-covid-vaccine-boosters.html

Primary school children from England's most deprived areas are nearly twice as likely to be short than those in the least deprived areas, according to new research led by Queen Mary University of London. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-young-children-england-poorest-areas.html

It's called a silent killer. Warnings are rare, but of the million people who suffer a ruptured brain aneurysm each year, almost half will die and only a third will recover without disabilities. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-screening-tool-people-aneurysms.html

Black women with high blood pressure may benefit from classes where they learn and practice skills to manage the condition, a small study finds. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-black-women-blood-pressure.html

COVID-19 can be bad for anyone. For pregnant women, scientific research shows it can be worse: The disease significantly raises their odds of needing ICU care, giving birth prematurely and of dying. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-doctors-pregnancy-vaccines-covid-.html

Humans can probably live to at least 130, and possibly well beyond, though the chances of reaching such super old age remain vanishingly small, according to new research. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-theoretically.html

In a Bucharest back street, drug addicts rush towards an ambulance handing out free syringes. While the eyes of the world focus on the COVID-19 pandemic, the fight against HIV has slowed down in Eastern Europe. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-covid-shadow-hiv-eastern-europe.html

Pfizer has submitted research to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on the effectiveness of its COVID-19 vaccine in children but the shots may not be available until November. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-pfizer-vaccine-kids-november.html

Treatment for psychological problems will be funded by France's government starting next year, the president announced Tuesday, amid growing awareness and concern about mental health. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-france-state-funded-therapy-tackles-mental.html

Heart healthy middle-aged adults are less likely to develop type 2 diabetes during their lifetime, according to a study published on World Heart Day in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, a journal of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-highlights-importance-heart-health-diabetes.html

The benefits of object play (blocks, puzzles, cars, dolls and so on) for infant learning and development are well documented. However, nearly nothing is known about how natural play unfolds in the ecologically valid home environment (real-life settings). Indeed, research on infant play is limited to structured tasks in child-friendly lab environments, where infants engage with predetermined objects for a fixed amount of time. Although structured observations illuminate how infants explore, interact, and learn with novel objects under controlled conditions, they reveal little about how infants spontaneously play in their everyday environments. A new study published in Child Development by researchers at New York University aimed to address this gap by examining infant free play outside the confines of a lab setting and pre-selected toys. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-babies-free-infants.html

New research presented at the Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD), held online this year, shows that breastfeeding is associated with a lower risk of developing type 1 diabetes (T1D). Drinking more than two or three glasses of cow's milk a day in childhood, however, is linked with higher odds of developing T1D. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-breastfeeding-diabetes-cow.html

New research being presented at the Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD), held online this year (27 Sept-1 Oct), suggests that consuming a very low calorie whey protein microgel shot 15 minutes before a meal reduces post-meal blood sugar spikes and improves the body's insulin response (which clears glucose in the blood) in people with type 2 diabetes. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-consuming-whey-protein-shot-meals.html

The ability of COVID-19 to infiltrate and potentially change the function of a variety of different cells in the body, including the insulin-producing beta cells of the pancreas, is the subject of a special session at this year's Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD). The presentation will be given by Dr. Shuibing Chen, Department of Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, U.S. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-sars-cov-infect-wide-range-cell.html

The detailed mechanism of how SARS-CoV-2 attacks the insulin-producing cells of the pancreas by targeting the angiotensin converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) protein on the surface of those cells is the subject of a special presentation at this year's Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes, given by Professor Francesco Dotta, Department of Medicine, Surgery and Neurosciences, University of Siena, Siena, Italy. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-ace2-protein-critical-insulin-producing-cells.html

New research being presented at the annual meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD), held online this year, explored whether COVID-19 is more deadly for some people with diabetes than for others. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-uncovers-covid-deadly-people-diabetes.html

A new paper in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, indicates that MRIs are cost effective for detecting breast cancer for women with very dense breasts detected by mammography. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-women-dense-breasts-mris-effective.html

An analysis of healthcare data in Ontario, Canada found a significant decline in referrals and procedures performed for common cardiac interventions after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Patients awaiting coronary bypass surgery or stenting were at higher risk of dying while waiting for their procedure compared to before the pandemic, although wait times were not longer. The study underscores the importance of timely recognition of symptoms and treatment in patients at high risk for cardiovascular disease, researchers observed in the Canadian Journal of Cardiology. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-consequences-significant-decrease-cardiac-procedures.html

Teenage girls' internet activity—together with offline risk factors—can increase their risk of online victimization, and this is more likely for those who have experienced childhood sexual abuse, suggests a study published in Nature Human Behaviour. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-young-sexual-abuse-victims-online.html

A clinical trial now enrolling at the University of Alabama at Birmingham is taking an unusual approach to help patients with Type 2 diabetes. Instead of medications, the study is using diet alone to improve blood sugar control and remodel the body "by re-partitioning energy away from metabolically harmful lipid stores," said Barbara Gower, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Nutrition Sciences. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-diet-composition-weight-loss-diabetes.html

The international team led by Dr. Jacqui McGovern, from the Centre for Biomedical Technologies, used tissue engineering and regenerative medicine principles to create primary tumors with their microenvironment and humanized bone as a metastatic site for prostate cancer cells to spread to. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-tissue-engineered-prostate-tumours-cancer.html

The Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine has been tested on children ages 5 to 11 and deemed "safe and highly effective," the company announced recently, amid its ongoing clinical trials for children. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-covid-vaccine-children-parents-kids.html

A recent study, "Effects of Communication Source and Racial Representation in Clinical Trial Recruitment Fliers," published in Health Communication, found that messages from peers improved participants' attitudes toward clinical trials and increased the intentions to participate in future trials. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-peer-messages-chances-clinical-trial.html

A low-cost, non-toxic cancer treatment has been developed by researchers at The Australian National University (ANU). The treatment uses dead bacteria to help kick-start the immune system and shrink cancer. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-bacteria-blasting-cancer-treatment.html

Researchers at the University of Southampton have invented a new way to generate human cartilage tissue from stem cells. The technique could pave the way for the development of a much-needed new treatment for people with cartilage damage. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-power-stem-cells-harnessed-cartilage.html

US pharmaceutical company Pfizer said Monday it had begun a clinical trial to test an influenza vaccine designed with the same mRNA technology behind its successful COVID-19 shot. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-pfizer-mrna-flu-vaccine-trial.html

France's pharmaceutical giant Sanofi, which has lagged rivals in producing new generation COVID-19 vaccines, said Tuesday it had decided to halt development of an mRNA candidate and focus on another vaccine against coronavirus. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-france-sanofi-halts-anti-covid-vaccine.html

A child has died after being infected with a rare brain-eating amoeba that was found at a Texas splash pad he had visited, and a review discovered lapses in water-quality testing at several parks, officials said Monday. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-boy-dies-brain-eating-amoeba-texas.html

Japan is set to lift all coronavirus emergency measures when they expire later this week as the infections slow and the nation tries to reactivate its economy. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-japan-virus-emergency-nationwide.html

In a packed intensive care unit for coronavirus patients in Romania's capital, Bucharest, 55-year-old Adrian Pica sits on his bed receiving supplementary oxygen to help him breathe. "I didn't want to get vaccinated because I was afraid," he said. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-europes-vaccine-east-overwhelm-icus.html

A randomized controlled trial found that the live shingles, or varicella-zoster, vaccine was safe and showed short-term efficacy for participants also taking tumor necrosis factor inhibitors (TNFis) for a broad range of inflammatory disorders. These finding suggest that a live virus vaccine in immunosuppressed patients receiving biologic therapies may be a reasonable option, especially for the zoster vaccine, if no alternative vaccine is available. The findings are published in Annals of Internal Medicine. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-shingles-vaccine-safe-short-term-efficacy.html

An inexpensive anti-seizure medication markedly improves learning and memory and other cognitive functions in Alzheimer's patients who have epileptic activity in their brains, according to a study published in the Sept. 27th issue of JAMA Neurology. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-anti-seizure-medication-cognitive-function-alzheimer.html

An international group of cancer researchers, led by the National Cancer Research Institute's (NCRI) Cellular Molecular Pathology Initiative (CMPath), has published guidance to address the variability in how pathology is planned and delivered in clinical trials. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-guidelines-inclusion-pathology-clinical-trial.html

The microbiota in the nose and upper throat likely contains biomarkers for assessing how sick an individual infected with SARS-CoV-2 may get and for developing new treatment strategies to improve their outcome, researchers say. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-nasal-microbiota-clues-symptoms-sars-cov-.html

Major weight loss appears to reverse most of the cardiovascular risks linked with obesity, according to a cross-sectional analysis of the US adult population being presented at the Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD), held online this year (27 Sept-1 Oct). source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-major-weight-loss-reverse-heart.html

Adults who are obese but appear healthy (without common metabolic abnormalities such as high blood pressure, abnormal blood fats, or diabetes) are not at greater risk of heart attack, stroke, or cardiovascular death than healthy individuals of normal weight, but they are around 33% more likely to develop heart failure and the heart rhythm condition, atrial fibrillation, according to a nationwide study from France that followed nearly 3 million hospital patients (aged 18 and older) for at least 5 years. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-healthy-obese-people-heart-failure.html

Men who undergo bariatric (obesity) surgery are five times as likely to die within 30-days of the procedure compared to women, and their long-term mortality is almost three times higher, according to an analysis of national data from Austria spanning 10 years. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-men-greater-dying-weight-loss-surgery.html

New research presented at the Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD), held online this year, found that the amount of fat stored in the liver is higher in people with type 2 diabetes (T2D), whatever their BMI. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-seemingly-healthy-liver-fat-trigger.html

New research presented at the Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD), held online this year, found that contrary to the perceived wisdom, people of normal weight with type 2 diabetes (T2D) can reverse the condition through substantial weight loss. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-people-weight-diabetes-remission.html

As the baby boomer generation moves into retirement age, it is expected that by the year 2034, older adults (ages 65 and up) will outnumber children in the United States for the first time in history. As the population ages, demand for health care will increase, and rising rates of alcohol use in older adults may create additional challenges to an already burdened health care system. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-experts-alcohol-older-adults.html

Researchers at UC Berkeley successfully revived human heart tissue after it had been preserved in a subfreezing, supercooled state for one to three days. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-supercooling-advances-human-tissue.html

In a study published in the journal Nutrients, researchers examined 27 male and female participants in a double-blind, randomized, placebo controlled, parallel study. Each person taking part was unaccustomed to "resistance" exercise, also known as strength training. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-blackcurrant-aids-recovery-muscle-soreness.html

At the height of her fame in the 1990s, supermodel Linda Evangelista was often quoted as saying she wouldn't get out of bed for less than $10,000 a day. Now she's revealed a popular cosmetic procedure has sent her to the "lowest depths of self-loathing," destroyed her livelihood and made her a recluse because of the changes to her body. She is suing for US$50 million. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-cryolipolysis.html

In little more than a year from the onset of COVID-19, scientists successfully developed vaccines against the SARS-CoV-2 virus for world-wide use. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-vaccines-africa-invest-expertise-infrastructure.html

For the first time ever, the intention of a continuous movement was able to be read out from non-invasive brain signals at TU Graz. This success enables more natural and non-invasive control of neuroprostheses to be carried out in real time. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-decodes-movement-brain.html

The Pacific island nations are falling back on immunization targets, especially those for diseases spread through mother-to-child transmission, according to WHO officials. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-pacific-islands-struggle-hepatitis-newborns.html

Today, we use the term "long COVID" to describe the lingering symptoms some people have many weeks or months after infection. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-social-media-trucker-caps-fascinating.html

Everything in our homes gathers dust. But what exactly is it? Where does it come from, and why does it keep coming back? Is it from outside? Is it fibers from our clothes and cells from our skin? source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-what-is-dust-and-where.html

A new study conducted by Georgia State University researchers examining the risks of adolescent suicide by guns found that the teens did not display typical suicidal behaviors. These findings increase the need for strong gun safety measures in homes where teenagers live. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-gun-safety-teen-suicide.html

People with treatment-resistant hypertension successfully reduced their blood pressure by adopting the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) eating plan, losing weight and improving their aerobic fitness by participating in a structured diet and exercise program at a certified cardiac rehabilitation facility, according to new research published today in the American Heart Association's flagship journal Circulation. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-healthy-diet-treatment-resistant-high-blood.html

Vaccinated Sydney residents will finally emerge from a lengthy COVID lockdown by mid-October, Australian officials said Monday, outlining a three-stage "blueprint for freedom" as case numbers fell in the city. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-sydney-blueprint-freedom-virus-cases.html

The COVID-19 pandemic triggered life expectancy losses not seen since World War II in Western Europe and exceeded those observed around the dissolution of the Eastern Bloc in central and Eastern European countries, according to research published [27 September], led by scientists at Oxford's Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-covid-pandemic-biggest-decreasein-life.html

Women with type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease (CVD), or at high risk of developing CVD, are less likely to reach recommended treatment targets than men, according to an international study involving almost 10,000 patients with type 2 diabetes, being presented at the Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD), held online this year (27 Sept-1 Oct). Nevertheless, women were less likely to experience adverse CVD outcomes apart from stroke. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-women-diabetes-comprehensive-cardiovascular-men.html

A study of more than 100,000 people with type 2 diabetes (T2D), presented at the annual meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD), held online this year, found that insulin resistance is associated with stroke. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-insulin-resistance.html

New research being presented at the annual meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD), held online this year, suggests that the widely used osteoporosis drug alendronate reduces the risk of type 2 diabetes. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-common-osteoporosis-drug-diabetes.html

New research being presented at the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD), held online this year (27 Sept-1 Oct), reveals how Belgium's efforts to maintain a diabetic foot care program during the COVID-19 pandemic can offer valuable lessons to the rest of the world. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-diabetic-foot-ulcers-covid-lockdown.html

New research being presented at the Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD), held online this year (27 Sept-1 Oct), finds that the COVID-19 response has left more than a million people with diabetes in the UK without access to the routine blood testing they need properly to manage their diabetes. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-uk-million-diagnostic-diabetes-lockdown.html

If further research can identify the substances that the bacteria of the gut are making to help muscles grow following exercise, we might be able to use some of those substances to promote the growth of muscles in people suffering from the loss of muscle as typically seen with aging or cancer. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-microbiome-muscle-growth-loss-conditions.html

Boys who participate in sports in early childhood are less likely to experience later depressive and anxiety symptoms—known as emotional distress—in middle childhood, a new study led by Université de Montréal psychoeducator Marie-Josée Harbec. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-ball-good.html

New research has found that children and youth may be at low risk of severe acute COVID-19, according to a study conducted during the first half of the pandemic and published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-children-youth-severe-acute-covid-.html

Hospitals in the Syrian capital Damascus and the coastal province of Latakia have reached capacity due to rising coronavirus admissions, a health official said Sunday. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-syria-coronavirus-spike-hospitals-capacity.html

With more than 40 million doses of coronavirus vaccines available, U.S. health authorities said they're confident there will be enough for both qualified older Americans seeking booster shots and the young children for whom initial vaccines are expected to be approved in the not-too-distant future. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-covid-vaccines-boosters-kids-shots.html

Britons are encouraged these days—though in most cases not required—to wear face coverings in crowded indoor spaces. But Prime Minister Boris Johnson regularly appears in the packed, poorly ventilated House of Commons cheek-by-jowl with other maskless Conservative lawmakers. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-uk-vaccines-common-virus-bay.html

A smartphone sensor, much like what is used in GPS systems, might be a way to determine whether or not someone is intoxicated after consuming marijuana, according to a new study by the Rutgers Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research.  source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-smartphone-sensor-potential-cannabis-intoxication.html

Ireland on Saturday stopped its system of mandatory hotel quarantine for travellers arriving in the country, as coronavirus curbs continue to wind down in the Republic. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-ireland-compulsory-hotel-quarantine.html

Billions more in profits are at stake for some vaccine makers as the U.S. moves toward dispensing COVID-19 booster shots to shore up Americans' protection against the virus. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-covid-vaccine-boosters-billions-drugmakers.html

Israel is pressing ahead with its aggressive campaign of offering coronavirus boosters to almost anyone over 12 and says its approach was further vindicated by a U.S. decision to give the shots to older patients or those at higher risk. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-israel-booster-aggressive.html

The U.S. launched a campaign to offer boosters of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine to millions of Americans on Friday even as federal health officials stressed the real problem remains getting first shots to the unvaccinated. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-booster-shots-millions-unprotected.html

Some 60 million people in the United States are now eligible for a Pfizer booster shot against COVID-19, President Joe Biden said on Friday as a regulatory marathon laying bare divisions within the scientific community on the issue came to a close. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-mn-americans-eligible-pfizer-booster.html

A national task force announced Thursday that it is recommending the immediate implementation of a new diagnostic equation for measuring kidney function, which advocates say will promote health equity and increase access to transplantation for Black patients. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-national-task-kidney-function-equation.html

From inside the womb and as soon as they enter the world, babies absorb information from their environment and the adults around them, quickly learning after birth how to start communicating through cries, sounds, giggles, and other kinds of baby talk. But are a child's long-term language skills shaped by how their brain develops during infancy, and how much of their language development is influenced by their environment and upbringing?  source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-skillsmaybe-born.html

Exercise is an important part of psoriasis management, but some common mistakes can cause a flare. source https://www.webmd.com/skin-problems-and-treatments/psoriasis/features/psoriasis-exercise-break-these-bad-habits?src=RSS_PUBLIC

If you’ve had breast cancer, you should make exercise part of your weekly routine. Here’s why. source https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/features/exercise-new-breast-cancer-drug?src=RSS_PUBLIC

Could the gluten in your favorite breads and pastas be giving you migraines? See what the experts say. source https://www.webmd.com/migraines-headaches/features/blame-sourdough-for-migraines?src=RSS_PUBLIC

Your hairstyling habits could be giving you a migraine. Follow these expert tips to avoid hair style triggers without sacrificing style. source https://www.webmd.com/migraines-headaches/features/migraine-hairdo-is-hair-do-not?src=RSS_PUBLIC

Dermatologists and hair stylists offer expert tips on caring for hair with psoriasis. source https://www.webmd.com/skin-problems-and-treatments/psoriasis/features/expert-hairstyling-tips-psoriasis?src=RSS_PUBLIC

A couple's health is surprisingly intertwined according to a recent cohort study that looked at Dutch and Japanese marriages. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-spouses-sickness-health.html

New study finds that a type of genetic modification involving long, repeated sequences within the human genome can affect a variety of health-related traits. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-large-scale-genetic-variations-contribute-height.html

The Michigan State University researchers who created the first miniature human heart model with primary heart cell types, vascular tissue and a functioning structure of chambers have taken another step forward: developing new therapies for congenital heart disease. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-mini-heart-therapies.html

Paclitaxel, or Taxol, is an old standby drug in the oncologist's tool belt. Yet only about half of breast cancer patients treated with the drug see their tumors shrink or disappear, and doctors and researchers have no way of knowing which patients will benefit. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-breast-cancer-drug-patients.html

Schizophrenia, which can cause disrupted thought and mood, delusions and hallucinations, is among the most debilitating mental disorders and the most mysterious. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-synaptic-dysfunction-schizophrenia.html

In 2020, an estimated 10 million people lost their lives to cancer. This devastating disease is underpinned by changes to our DNA—the instruction manual for all our cells. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-insights-genome-epigenome-cancer.html

Hair loss and regrowth are challenging side effects of cancer treatment. Learn how healthy habits and smart styling can make a big difference. source https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/features/breast-cancer-hair?src=RSS_PUBLIC

How do you help someone with their leg bitten off by a shark? Groundbreaking research by an Australian medic-surfer has uncovered a simple way to stop bleeding and save lives. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-surfing-doctor-simple-life-saving-shark.html

Russia on Friday recorded its highest daily coronavirus death toll following a spurt in cases linked to the Delta variant and a lacklustre vaccination drive. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-russia-daily-virus-deaths.html

A computer program trained to see patterns among thousands of breast ultrasound images can aid physicians in accurately diagnosing breast cancer, a new study shows. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-artificial-intelligence-tool-accuracy-breast.html

An international team of scientists have created a three-dimensional (3-D) pancreatic cancer tumour model in the laboratory, combining a bioengineered matrix and patient-derived cells that could be used to develop and test targeted treatments. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-lab-grown-tumor-treatment-pancreatic.html

First it was computer chips, and now spirits: Global supply chain woes are shaping up as the party pooper in some parts of the United States. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-covid-woes-alcohol.html

Hospitals and nursing homes in New York are bracing for the possibility that a statewide COVID-19 vaccine mandate for health care workers could lead to staff shortages when it takes effect Monday. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-ny-hospitals-staff-shortage-vaccine.html

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday endorsed booster shots for millions of older or otherwise vulnerable Americans, opening a major new phase in the U.S vaccination drive against COVID-19. CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky signed off on a series of recommendations from a panel of advisers late Thursday. The advisers said boosters should be offered to people 65 and older, nursing home residents and those ages 50 to 64 who have risky underlying health problems. The extra dose would be given once they are at least six months past their last Pfizer shot. source https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-cdc-endorses-covid-booster-millions.html