UT Southwestern Medical Center - New findings from studies in mice suggest that defects in the brain’s ability to respond to glucose play a role in the development of non-insulin dependent (type 2) diabetes, and that a high-fat diet may contribute to impairing brain cells’ ability to regulate glucose throughout the body.
The new NIH-funded study, […]

Newswise - A new Mayo Clinic study suggests that ground flaxseed in the diet can decrease hot flashes in post-menopausal women who do not take estrogen. The findings from the pilot study are published in the summer 2007 issue of the Journal of the Society for Integrative Oncology.
A hot flash is often described as a […]

Pine bark extract as an alternative to hormone replacement therapy (HRT).
A study to be published in the Scandinavian Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology reveals that the supplement Pycnogenol® (pic-noj-en-all), a pine bark extract from the French maritime pine tree, reduces peri-menopausal “climacteric symptoms” such as hot flashes, depression, panic attacks, cholesterol and other common symptoms […]

Newswise — The debate about whether or not lycopene or some other phytochemicals from tomatoes might reduce prostate cancer risk is apparently not over. Dr Edward Giovannucci from Harvard Medical School published an editorial in the July 2007 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute that responded to a report in the same […]

Regression of cardiovascular damage seen from prescribing Valsartan.
University of Minnesota - Researchers have discovered that giving the drug Valsartan to people who have early cardiovascular abnormalities, but show no symptoms of cardiovascular disease, can slow progression and even reverse damage to the heart and blood vessels.
In a recent double-blind study, researchers enrolled 76 asymptomatic subjects […]

High blood sugar in pregnant mothers increases risk of childhood obesity.
Treating diabetes during pregnancy can break the link between gestational diabetes and childhood obesity, according to a Kaiser Permanente study featured in the September 2007 issue of Diabetes Care.
The largest study of its kind, this research shows that the risk of childhood obesity rises in […]