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Diabetes insipidus

Overtreating Diabetes Can Have Serious Consequences, Experts Warn

13 Jun 2016

Too-low blood sugar can cause hypoglycemia, fainting, comas and seizures With type-2 diabetes, it’s important to keep blood sugar under control, but there’s also a danger in using too many drugs to...

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Multiple sclerosis

New treatment can halt aggressive multiple sclerosis

13 Jun 2016 • 9 comments

A radical treatment that wipes out and then regenerates the immune system can halt progression of aggressive multiple sclerosis (MS) and even reverse its symptoms, research has shown. Scientists in...

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Multiple sclerosis

'It was really the last option': one woman's multiple sclerosis recovery

13 Jun 2016

Jennifer Moulson had the first symptoms of multiple sclerosis when she was 21. Five years later, she was in a wheelchair, unable to dress herself or cut up her own food. Today she skis and goes...

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Arthritis

New drug clears psoriasis in clinical trials

13 Jun 2016

About 80 percent of patients with moderate to severe psoriasis saw their disease completely or almost completely cleared with a new drug called ixekizumab, according to three large, long-term...

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Breast cancer

New compound shows potential for triple-negative breast cancer

13 Jun 2016

Researchers at the University of Michigan have identified a promising new compound for targeting one of the most aggressive types of breast cancer. The compound, currently called UM-164, goes after...

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Nut, Quinoa & Chocolate Bars

9 Jun 2016

In the kitchen: read the "Nut, Quinoa & Chocolate Bars" recipe quickly and reproduce it at home!

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Ulcerative colitis

Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis, and colon cancer treated with experimental breakthrough therapy

7 Jun 2016

Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis and colon cancer can be treated with experimental breakthrough therapy. The findings come from UCLA where researchers have found a way to suppress the development...

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Breast cancer

Breast cancer drugs should be given for 10 years, study shows

7 Jun 2016 • 6 comments

Women should be offered 10 years of drugs to prevent the return of breast cancer, rather than five as now, according to a major study showed longer-term treatment reduced the numbers whose disease...

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Parkinson's disease

Muhammad Ali: Boxer's battle with Parkinson’s

6 Jun 2016 • 2 comments

Legendary boxer Muhammad Ali died at the age of 74, decades after developing the degenerative brain disease Parkinson's. Parkinson's happens when nerve cells are lost in the brain. It attacks a very...

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Pasta Sauce

5 Jun 2016

In the kitchen: read the "Pasta Sauce" recipe quickly and reproduce it at home!

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Multiple sclerosis

Multiple Sclerosis could be reversed with calorie-restricted diet, study suggests

30 May 2016

A calorie-restricted diet which mimics the effects of fasting may reverse the symptoms of multiple sclerosis and help repair the damage caused by the disease. Scientists are so excited about the...

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Breast cancer

Scientists block breast cancer cells from hiding in bones of mice, prompting hope for human trials

30 May 2016

Scientists have successfully blocked breast cancer cells from entering and hiding in the bones of mice, where they can survive chemotherapy treatment. Researchers at Duke University have also...

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