Diabetes is a disease in which the glucose (sugar) levels in your blood become abnormally high. You can tell you have diabetes if you feel an increased need to urinate or feel unusually thirsty, hungry, fatigued, or have blurry vision or numbness in your feet or hands. There are two types of diabetes. Type 1 …
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A drug initially developed to treat type 2 diabetes has been found to significantly reverse memory loss in transgenic mice genetically engineered to develop a form of Alzheimer’s disease similar to humans. British and Chinese researchers, led by Professor Christian Holscher of Lancaster University in the United Kingdom, conducted the study and recently published its …
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In a recent issue of JAMA Dermatology, researchers from Johns Hopkins Medicine proposed a link between uterine fibroids and Central Centrifugal Cicatricial Alopecia (CCCA), a common form of hair loss among women of African descent. The link was discovered after medical records of 487,104 Black women over the age of 18, during The four-year period …
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Health experts had already warned that this flu season would start early but also very dangerous as indicated by its outbreak in Australia that occurred months before reaching this side of the world. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), has now confirmed that the influenza virus which causes the flu has impacted …
Muesli is a Swiss and German breakfast staple consisting of raw rolled oats, multiple grains, fresh or dried fruits, nuts and seeds. It is minimally processed and is known to be an excellent source of fiber and protein. Due to its high fiber characteristic, research scientists at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat Erlangen-Numberg (FAU) recently published their findings …