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Tag: Diabetes
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Health
Study signals heart trouble for young adults
Researchers find hypertension, diabetes, and obesity worsened across the board in study group of people in their 20s, 30s, and 40s, with racial and ethnic disparities present.
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Has first person to live to be 150 been born?
Harvard researchers reported that they can age and then restore youth to lab mice, using a gene cocktail that has already restored vision in mice.
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When pollinator populations are in peril
New Harvard study finds pollination loss removes healthy foods from global diets, increases chronic diseases causing an estimated 427,000 excess deaths annually.
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Diabetes drugs may reduce cardiovascular deaths
Drugs originally developed for the treatment of Type 2 diabetes were found to reduce cardiovascular deaths and heart failure events among patients.
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Grandma’s workouts may have made you healthier
Researchers found that grandmothers’ exercise habits likely impact their grandchildren’s health.
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Breakthrough within reach for diabetes scientist and patients nearest to his heart
One hundred years after the discovery of insulin, replacement therapy represents “a new kind of medicine,” says Douglas Melton, co-director of Harvard Stem Cell Institute.
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Cut sugar to save lives, researchers urge
A new health and economic model clearly shows why it’s imperative that food manufacturers reduce the amount of added sugar in their products.
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How unjust police killings damage the mental health of Black Americans
Harvard Chan’s David Williams, whose research looks at how discrimination affects Black people’s health, talks about his pioneering work to assess the toll that police killings are having on Black mental health.
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Science & Tech
Dissecting the ‘undruggable’
Researchers at Harvard have designed new, highly selective tools that can add or remove sugars from a protein with no off-target effects, to examine exactly what the sugars are doing and engineer them into new treatments for “undruggable” proteins.
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Science & Tech
Synthetic lining in small intestine may help treat diabetes, obesity
Researchers have developed a synthetic lining that could deliver drugs in a sustained way to the small intestine, offering hope for those suffering from lactose intolerance, diabetes, and obesity.
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In soda tax fight, echoes of tobacco battles
Taxes on sugary drinks are potentially effective tools to fight the obesity epidemic and advocates are drawing lessons from the long battle against tobacco as they plot what they know will be a tough road ahead.
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Science & Tech
Combination gene therapy treats age-related diseases
Wyss Institute, Harvard Medical School study offers hope for single genetic treatment for multiple age-related ills.
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Science & Tech
Pancreas on a chip
Islet-on-a-chip technology allows clinicians to easily determine the therapeutic value of beta cells for any given patient.
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Health
Improving cell therapy for diabetes
A team of researchers led by Harvard University scientists has improved the laboratory process of converting stem cells into insulin-producing beta cells from 30 percent to 80 percent.
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The dietary factor
Based on new research, a randomized placebo-controlled trial in humans indicates that a popular food ingredient called propionate may raise the risk of diabetes and obesity.
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Homeless, hopeless, and sick
Humanitarian workers from around the globe will visit Harvard to discuss how best to treat the increasing number of diabetics among refugee populations. Symposium organizers talk about the problem and what they hope the symposium will accomplish.
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Microneedle pill takes the sting out of insulin
A team of investigators from Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital, MIT, and Novo Nordisk has developed a microneedle pill that can deliver an oral formulation of insulin that can be swallowed rather than injected.
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What’s another hour of lost sleep? For some, a hazard
An interview with Jeanne Duffy, an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a sleep researcher at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, on links between sleep and health.
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Researchers probe stomach surgery’s ‘miracle’ secrets
Harvard researchers are bringing an engineer’s perspective to a medical mystery — how does gastric bypass surgery do so much more than reduce weight?
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Hitting diabetes where we eat
Experts gathered at the Harvard Chan School to discuss recent developments in the fight against the country’s diabetes epidemic.
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Feeling woozy? Time to check the tattoo
Harvard and MIT researchers have developed smart tattoo ink capable of monitoring health by changing color to tell an athlete if she is dehydrated or a diabetic if his blood sugar rises.
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The grateful life may be a longer one
Psychiatrist Jeff Huff is leading an MGH effort to determine whether positive thinking can promote better health.
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Sugar stands accused
Science journalist Gary Taubes brought his “Case Against Sugar” to Harvard Law School.
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Medical hope on horizon
Stem cell science is accelerating development of therapies for diabetes, ALS, other diseases, researchers tell HUBweek sessions.
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Campus & Community
Douglas Melton wins Ogawa-Yamanaka Stem Cell Prize
Douglas Melton, co-director of Harvard Stem Cell Institute and the Xander University Professor in Harvard’s Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, has been awarded the 2016 Ogawa-Yamanaka Stem Cell Prize from the Gladstone Institutes.
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First area cell transplantation center
An expansive effort by several Harvard-affiliated units and hospitals has created the first cell transplantation center in the Boston area.
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Potential diabetes treatment advances
Researchers at MIT’s David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, in collaboration with scientists at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute and several other institutions, have developed an implantable device that in mice shielded insulin-producing beta cells from immune system attack for six months — a substantial proportion of life span.
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Positive sign in America’s food fight
Frank Hu, a professor of nutrition and epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the principal investigator of the diabetes component of the landmark Nurses’ Health Study, responded to the latest Center for Disease Control and Prevention findings in an interview with the Gazette.
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How coffee loves us back
Research at Harvard and elsewhere has repeatedly tied coffee consumption to health benefits.
