CHICAGO - People with type 1 diabetes who got stem cell transplants were able to go as long as four years without needing insulin treatments, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.
CHICAGO - People with type 1 diabetes who got stem cell transplants were able to go as long as four years without needing insulin treatments, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.
LONDON - A new drug against Alzheimer’s disease, developed by British researchers, has shown promise in tests on a handful of patients.
PARIS - French drugmaker Ipsen said on Tuesday it was in talks with the U.S health authority to detail any possible side effects of its anti-wrinkle drug Reloxin before it can win final marketing approval.
TRENTON, New Jersey - U.S. diabetics are increasingly risking life and limb by cutting back on or even going without doctor visits, insulin, medicines and blood-sugar testing as they lose income and health insurance in the recession, an Associated Press analysis has found.
SYDNEY - For half her life, 66-year-old Gael Lander struggled with high blood pressure that did not respond to the drugs usually prescribed.
BERLIN - Women who enjoy drinking coffee may be lowering their risk of suffering a stroke, new US research suggests. Women who drank five to seven cups of coffee a week were 12 per cent less likely to have a stroke than were those who downed just one cup a month, the study among 83,000 women revealed.
NEW YORK - Women who had an increase in blood pressure during pregnancy are likely to develop heart disease at an earlier age than women who maintained normal blood pressure while they were pregnant, Chilean researchers report.
SYDNEY - People grumbling their way through the grimness of winter have better recall than those enjoying a carefree, sunny day, Australian researchers have found.
LONDON – Job promotion can harm your health and leave you substantially less time to visit the doctor, British researchers claim in a study published Friday.
NEW YORK - More than 30 percent of multivitamins tested recently by ConsumerLab.com contained significantly more or less of an ingredient than claimed, or were contaminated with lead, the company reports.