The Ras protein “drives cells crazy” and the anti-Ras drug being developed for the treatment of pancreatic cancer also shows that it is able to slow the progression of diabetes as well.

Researchers from North Carolina State University and Mayo Clinic have developed a computer model that medical doctors can use to determine the best time to begin using statin therapy in diabetes patients to help prevent heart disease and stroke.   

Adults may be able to reduce their risk of developing Type 2 diabetes as they age simply by setting diet and exercise goals and sticking to those goals, study findings hint. 

Researchers at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio found that exercise increases the number and function of energy-making factories in muscle cells, which protects against development of Type 2 diabetes.  

Even moderately elevated cholesterol levels in midlife are strongly associated with later risk of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and vascular dementia (VaD), new research suggests.    

Dutch researchers report that in patients with Type 1 diabetes, continuous intraperitoneal insulin infusion (CIPII) using an implantable pump achieves a higher degree of euglycemia than do multiple daily insulin injections.   

Once again, a large cohort study is pointing to an increased fracture risk with thiazolidinediones (TZDs), used in the treatment of Type 2 diabetes.    

Supplementing with the nutrient carnitine helps obese animals to clear the extra sugar in their blood, something they had trouble doing on their own, researchers at Duke University Medical Center, North Carolina, report.

A new review concludes that there is extensive evidence from three decades of research that fish oils, or more specifically the omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) contained in them, are beneficial for everyone and that it can reduce the risk for total mortality, sudden death, CHD mortality, and cardiovascular mortality …

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