Supervised Exercised For Diabetics
CHICAGO: Diabetics get the most benefit when they exercise more than 150 minutes per week in a supervised fitness or exercise programs tailored to their needs, an analysis released on Tuesday suggests. The findings, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, suggest it may be time for policymakers to consider reimbursing patients for [...]
Back to basics in search for HIV vaccine
MEXICO CITY: Leaders in the quest for a vaccine against HIV acknowledged on Monday that their mission was dogged by many problems and cautioned that any breakthrough lay years in the future. In a workshop at the International AIDS Conference, they said the AIDS pandemic would only be defeated by a preventative vaccine, rather than [...]
US HIV infections rate higher than estimate!!!
WASHINGTON: US health authorities acknowledged on Saturday that they have substantially underestimated the number of new HIV infections in the country, in a study showing that the epidemic is worse than previously thought. About 56,300 people were infected with the virus that causes AIDS in 2006, a figure 40% higher than the previous estimate of [...]
Hope for Diabetic Heart Patients
An oral anti-diabetic drug, pioglitazone, has been shown to reduce clogging of arteries, lowered blood pressure, raised good cholesterol and improved on other cardio-vascular risk factors. In the study presented at the recent 57th annual meeting of the American College of Cardiology in Chicago, it was discovered that pioglitazone caused a regression of coronary atherosclerosis. [...]
