Developing The Artificial Pancreas For People With Diabetes

All people with type 1 diabetes, and some with type 2, need to inject or pump insulin into their bodies to survive. Figuring out how much insulin is necessary requires frequent monitoring and can be difficult, even risky. According to Diabetes Forecast, the consumer magazine of the American Diabetes Association, one of the most hopeful trends in [...]

Three Biomarkers In Spinal Fluid Appear Helpful To Classify Patients With Alzheimer’s Disease

A “signature” consisting of three biomarkers in the cerebrospinal fluid was present in 90 percent of patients who had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease but also was found in more than one-third of cognitively normal older adults, according to a report in the August issue of Archives of Neurology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
“The initiation [...]

Woman Survives 5 Year Battle With Flesh-Eating Bacteria

A woman in the US who survived a five year battle with flesh-eating bacteria, undergoing dozens of operations, including an unusual bowel transplant, has given an interview about her ordeal.
34-year old nurse and mother Sandy Wilson told the Associated Press (AP) that at one point she felt like she “was rotting from the inside out”. [...]

Young Women With Autoimmune Condition Need To Be Warned About The Dangers Of Smoking And Use Of Oral Contraceptives

An article published Online First and in the November edition of The Lancet Neurology reports that women with a particular subtype of antibody called lupusanticoagulant (LA) have a more than 40-fold increased risk ofstroke. Moreover, they have a 5-fold increased risk of heart attack compared with the general population of young women. The autoimmune condition antiphospholipid syndrome mostly [...]

Locked In syndrome Guy Wants to Die

A man with “locked-in syndrome” has begun legal action, asking the director of public prosecutions to clarify the law on so-called mercy killing.
Tony Nicklinson, 56, wants his wife to be allowed to help him die without the risk of being prosecuted for murder.
Mr Nicklinson, of Melksham, Wiltshire, communicates by blinking or nodding his [...]

Consumer-based genetic testing has come under fire

Consumer-based genetic testing has come under fire in recent months, prompting the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to launch an investigation in June.
While that investigation is not complete, information coming out of one federal agency and presented to a Congressional panel points to preliminary tests showing faults in over-the-counter and direct-to-consumer [...]

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