Diabetes Research News

Actos May Help Prevent Diabetes - But You Probably Don't Want It (Yet)

Mar 25, 2011

The big news in the diabetes world this week is a new article in the New England Journal of Medicine (link here) about how Actos (scientific name: pioglitazone) can help prevent the development of diabetes in folks with prediabetes. The American Diabetes Association has a handy page for helping determine if you have "prediabetes" (link here). If you're looking at HbA1c, it means that you are between 5.7% and 6.4%.

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Sudden Death In Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy - The Exercise Didn't Do It

Sudden death in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is sometimes associated with exercise, but that may be just medical reductionism looking for any answer.

The Seasonal Spike In Divorce Filings

Associate sociology professor Julie Brines and doctoral candidate Brian Serafini claims there is quantitative evidence of a seasonal, biannual pattern of filings for divorce - determined by analyzing…

Could Goats Become Man's Best Friend?

Goats have the capacity to communicate with people like other domesticated animals, such as dogs and horses, according to scientists from Queen Mary University of London (QMUL).

Barely Half Of The Public Now Trusts Science - What To Do

When I was young, conservatives and liberals had equally high levels of trust in science. And it was high. Only progressives thought science was not a force for public good.