| OTTAWA (Canadian Press) -- More than 30 organizations from across Canada are forming partnerships in a $15.5-million series of initiatives designed to prevent chronic disease.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Emergency health alerts for the Facebook generation? The nation's ambulance crews are pushing a virtual medical ID system to rapidly learn a patient's health history during a crisis - and which can immediately text-message loved ones that the person is headed for a hospital.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Scientists can start using taxpayer dollars to do research with 13 batches of embryonic stem cells and the government says dozens more cell lines should be available soon, opening a new era for the potentially life-saving field.
ATLANTA (AP) -- The first county-by-county survey of obesity reflects past studies that show the rate of obesity is highest in the Southeast and Appalachia.
FORT COLLINS, Colo. (The New York Times News Service) -- Colorado State University researchers think insulin levels in the brain may be the key to understanding how some types of dementia progress.
DENVER (The New York Times News Service) -- It seemed to Margie McCandless that she was destined to have diabetes.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Treating even mild diabetes that develops during pregnancy helps keep moms and babies from gaining too much weight and makes for easier deliveries, new research shows. Pregnant women in the U.S. are routinely tested and treated for high blood sugar levels, although it hasn't been clear whether treating the mildest cases really benefited them and their infants.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- It costs $1,400 to cover the oozing sore on the diabetic's foot with a piece of artificial skin, helping it heal if patients keep pressure off that spot. So when Medicare paid for the treatment but not the extra $100 for a simple walking cast to protect it, an artificial skin maker last year started giving free casts to some needy patients.
ATLANTA (AP) -- U.S. life expectancy has risen to a new high, now standing at nearly 78 years, the government reported Wednesday.
WASHINGTON (The New York Times News Service) -- Obesity is the elephant in the room of health care reform, a public health catastrophe that kills well over 100,000 Americans a year.
(NewsRx.com) -- Crack open the latest medical textbook to the chapter on type 2, or adult-onset, diabetes, and you'll be hard pressed to find the term "immunology" anywhere. This is because metabolic conditions and immunologic conditions are, with a few exceptions, distant cousins (see also Harvard Medical School).
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Obesity's not just dangerous, it's expensive. New research shows medical spending averages $1,400 more a year for an obese person than for someone who's normal weight. Overall obesity-related health spending reaches $147 billion, double what it was nearly a decade ago, says the study published Monday by the journal Health Affairs.
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- A New Zealand biotech company began a trial Thursday of an experimental treatment for diabetes in which cells from newborn pigs will be implanted into eight human volunteers.
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- The doctor had barely pulled away the needle when a blister appeared on Tracey Berg-Fulton's abdomen: An experimental shot was revving up the 24-year-old's immune system -- part of a bold quest to create a vaccine-like therapy for diabetes.
(USA TODAY) -- Prompt bypass surgery holds no advantage over intensive drug therapy in many patients with type 2 diabetes when it comes to dying from strokes or heart attacks, new research suggests.
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- Diabetes is spiraling in Asia but -- unlike the West -- those affected are relatively young and less likely to be struggling with obesity, a new study shows.
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