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Posted by bivvy
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Saturday, 06 February 2010 |
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 Scientists in Cambridge have shown that an "artificial pancreas" can be used to regulate blood sugar in children with Type 1 diabetes.
A trial found that combining a "real time" sensor measuring glucose levels with a pump that delivers insulin can boost overnight blood sugar control.
(Continue reading at BBC)
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Posted by Michelle B
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Friday, 05 February 2010 |
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 Five months before Allen Manly retired from his job in June as a high school guidance counselor, he underwent training that could go a long way to keeping his brain – and his skills – sharp. He signed up for hours of orientation to be a health care volunteer. A growing number of researchers believe volunteering may actually be doing Manly a lot of good -- maybe even delaying dementia and prolonging his life.
(Continue reading in HealthZone.ca)
Photo: This woman started a running club for the homeless, after giving up her Wall Street career.
(Woman Leaves Corporate World to Run With the Homeless -Video)
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Posted by geri
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Sunday, 31 January 2010 |
 The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation pledged $10 billion over the next ten years to help research, develop and deliver vaccines for the world’s poorest countries.
The Gateses said that increased investment in vaccines by governments and the private sector could help developing countries dramatically reduce child mortality by the end of the decade -- averting more than 8 million deaths annually by 2020.
“We’ve made vaccines our number-one priority at the Gates Foundation,” said Melinda Gates.
Since the last century, smallpox has been eradicated, polio is on the verge of being eradicated and more than 2 million deaths are averted each year.
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Read more... [Gates Foundation Pledges $10 Billion For Vaccines in Developing Countries]
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Posted by Jason Stamp
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Friday, 29 January 2010 |
In a "dramatic" breakthrough that has positive implications for Parkinson's or Alzheimer's, researchers have transformed ordinary mouse skin cells directly into functioning nerve cells, bypassing the need for stem cells or even stemlike cells and
greatly speeding up the field of regenerative medicine.
The research, from Stanford’s Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine , could make it possible to someday
take a sample of a patient's skin and turn the cells into a tailor-made
transplant to treat brain diseases such as Parkinson's or Alzheimer's,
or heal damaged spinal cords.
(Continue reading the story at Reuters.com)
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Posted by Michelle B
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Wednesday, 27 January 2010 |
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 Nearly 700 lives were saved last year thanks to a record number of organ donations. Organ donations rose 17 percent in 2009, two years after the province-wide Organ Donation Strategy was introduced.
Last year, thanks to 218 deceased donors, 691 life-saving organ transplants took place, decreasing the number of deaths among people on the waiting list by nearly 24 percent. There was also an unprecedented number of tissue donations -- up 24 per cent from 2008.
(Continue reading in the Health Zone.ca)
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