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Transportation For America, a coalition of pedestrian advocates and transportation reform groups, has released their report, Dangerous By Design 2011, naming the most dangerous cities for walking in the USA. They used 10 years of pedestrian fatality data and census data on walking to calculate a Pedestrian Danger Index (PDI) …

NIH Pulls Plug on (AIM-HIGH) Trial with Niacin. Trial of extended-release niacin (Niaspan, Abbott) given in addition to statin therapy in patients with a history of cardiovascular disease, high triglycerides, and low levels of HDL cholesterol has been halted prematurely, 18 months ahead of schedule, because niacin offered no additional …

HbA1c has a low sensitivity to diagnose diabetes in older Asian subjects and caution is required when using HbA1c in isolation. This raises the possibility that a different cut-off value for different age groups may be more appropriate. Patients were stratified into 4 age groups in a cross-sectional study of …

A biomedical professor has found that onions, green tea and olive leaf extract can fight obesity and its related diseases such as heart disease, diabetes and fatty liver, even when a high-fat and high-carbohydrate diet is indulged in. Prof Lindsay Brown, tested a range of foods on rats that were …

Pooled data involving well over a million subjects confirms that diabetes increases the risk of atrial fibrillation (AF), researchers say. “In this study which brought together all of the available evidence, we found that individuals with diabetes had between 30% to 40% greater risk of AF compared with non-diabetics and …

It has taken less than nine years for healthcare costs to double for the average family of four covered by a preferred provider organization. And there’s more bad news: employers are passing more of the costs on to their employees. The 2011 MMI healthcare cost is $19,393, a 7.3% or …

Scientists will mix insulin with Symlin to see if the combination injection works as well at controlling blood sugar levels as separately injected doses of the therapies. One of the biggest barriers to regular control of blood-sugar levels in diabetes patients is an inconsistent treatment regimen due in part to …

Type 2 diabetes is associated with many complications at the macro- and microvascular level. The impact of acute hyperglycemia on retinal as well as macrovascular circulation was investigated in a recent study. Vascular and endothelial function assessments included retinal vascular reactivity and flow-mediated dilatation of the brachial artery measured at …

  Diamyd Medical reports that results from its European Phase III study with the antigen-based therapy Diamyd® did not meet the primary efficacy endpoint of preserving beta cell function at 15 months, as measured by meal stimulated C-peptide, in newly diagnosed Type 1 diabetes patients.

Mood improves more after vigorous exercise, researchers find. Vigorous exercise offers more of a mood boost than less strenuous exercise, a new study finds. Researchers compared 11 sedentary people who did moderate and high-intensity exercise. Their mood was assessed before, during, immediately following, and 20 minutes after they did the …