Nanotech Breath Sensor Prototype to Detect Diabetes and Potentially Serious Complication: Scientists are reporting development and successful testing of a sensor that can instantly tell whether someone has Type 1 diabetes. It could also be used by emergency room doctors to determine whether a patient has developed diabetic ketoacidosis. This …

Weight ‘key’ in kidney transplant success: Matching up the weight of donors and recipients boosts success in kidney transplants, suggest French researchers. A study of over 1,000 transplant patients found those receiving a small kidney in proportion to their weight were more at risk of complications. In the Journal of …

Diet May Cut Alzheimers Risk by 38%: Eating a diet high in vegetables, fish, fruit, nuts and poultry, and low in red meat and butter may reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s disease, new research finds. Researchers asked more than 2,100 New York City residents aged 65 and older about their …

Europeans Stop their Escalators for Three Days: Escalators in some of the largest Bulgarian shopping centers were stopped for three days and people had to use stairs, as the country marked the first European Obesity Day on Saturday, May 22. The aim is to motivate and support overweight European citizens …

Kari Hemminki in Sweden has carried out the largest study ever on cancer risks of people with Type 2 diabetes.…

An international expert panel’s recommendation last year that glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) should be the primary test for diagnosing Type 2 diabetes has met considerable resistance, with some researchers and clinicians insisting that the old standards remain the best….

Study shows around 40% of ranibizumab patients substantially improved vision by 10 letters or more on an eye-chart, compared to 16% with laser therapy alone…. 

Men who took drug twice as likely to report hearing loss, study finds….

Eating bacon, sausage, hot dogs and other processed meats can raise the risk of heart disease and diabetes, U.S. researchers said in a study that identifies the real culprits at the meat counter…. 

The combination of fenofibrate and simvastatin did not reduce the rate of fatal cardiovascular events, nonfatal myocardial infarction, or nonfatal stroke, as compared with simvastatin alone….