A trial could offer the first glimpse of a technology that may hold vast medical promise but also is embroiled in controversy.

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Prescriptions for drugs to treat diabetes have increased 40 per cent in five years as the obesity epidemic and improved diagnosis increases the number of people on the medicines.

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Recession, illness and a bad winter are flagged up as factors behind a difficult year for an airports operator.

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Thanks to thousands of years of skull morphing, the brains of some domestic dogs have shifted and a key component relocated

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Electrons trapped inside strain bubbles in graphene act as if they were in an incredibly powerful magnetic field good news for future electronics

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Postmenopausal women with diabetes taking thiazolidinediones (TZDS), including rosiglitazone and pioglitazone, may be at increased risk for fractures, according to a new study. Men with diabetes taking both loop diuretics and TZDs may also be at increased risk of fractures.

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A new study shows that a sleep disorder may be a sign of dementia or Parkinson’s disease up to 50 years before the disorders are diagnosed.

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There is an increased risk of recurring gestational diabetes in pregnant women who developed gestational diabetes during their first and second pregnancies, according to new study.

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Doctors may soon be able to patch up damaged bones and joints anywhere in the body with a simple shot in the arm.

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CANCER patients at the Western General were stunned to see a fox appear on their ward.

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Cancer sufferers who have been denied drugs on the NHS because they are too expensive will be provided with the treatments under a new Government £50m scheme, it has been announced.

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Some cosmetic surgeons are using patients own transfering patients’ fat mixed with stem cells from one area of their body to another.

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Childhood cancer survival is associated with increased risk of long-term abnormalities in cardiac function, according to a new study.

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The NHS is spending too much on diabetes drugs say researchers, who found the medicines account for 7% of the UK prescribing budget. A big rise in the number of people with type 2 diabetes in recent years does not fully explain the spiralling costs, say Cardiff University researchers.

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Patients with deadly glioblastomas who received high doses of radiation that hit a portion of the brain that harbors neural stem cells had double the progression-free survival time as patients who had lower doses or no radiation targeting the area, a study has found.

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CANCER patients risk shortening their lives by taking herbal remedies and supplements which stop their conventional treatment working properly, Scottish doctors have warned.

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PEOPLE can find out whether they are at risk of getting diabetes when a roadshow stops by next week.

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Researchers at the University of Sydney claim a breakthrough in research into Alzheimer’s disease will lead directly to a new treatment.

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A researcher is using a continuous glucose monitoring device — commonly used in humans with diabetes — to help treat dogs and other animals. The device, which provides a detailed glucose picture of an animal over several days, will help pet owners manage their pets’ diabetes.

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Women given radiotherapy to treat cancer during childhood may be at a higher risk of suffering a stillbirth or baby dying, a study says.

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Studying a protein already known to play an important role in Type 2 diabetes and cancer, genomics researchers have discovered that it may have an even broader role in disease, particularly in other metabolic disorders and heart disease. In finding unsuspected links to other disease-related genes, the scientists may have identified future targets for drug treatments.

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Science GCSEs do not require pupils to actually demonstrate a grasp of how science works, the exams watchdog has said.

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A controversial transfer of cancer surgery from Cornwall to Devon is approved by an independent review.

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A little boy fighting cancer was told he was overweight after putting on TWO POUNDS during chemotherapy.

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Scientists have uncovered a novel mechanism that dramatically increases insulin sensitivity and reduces the risk of developing type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

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The impact of mine-related noise on the Hunter Valley village of Camberwell is again under the microscope, with a new research project underway.

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Eisai Co. intends to start making its Aricept Alzheimers drug in India for export to Japan, the U.S. and Europe early as next year, Nikkei English News reported, without saying how it got the information.

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Join us at the 2010 USA Science and Engineering Festival in October as we take steps to create a national network of science festivals, coordinated by satellite events in each state throughout the duration of the Festival.

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Researchers have discovered that a protein called Tet 1 helps stem cells renew themselves and stay pluripotent — able to become any type of cell in the body.

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Cancer researchers have discovered a previously unknown type of gene regulation and DNA behavior in breast cancer cells that may lead to better insight about environmental exposure to estrogen-like compounds. The study provides the first evidence that cells can regulate many genes at once by looping their DNA, and that this can contribute to cancer when it goes awry.

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The more things change in diabetes treatments, it seems, the more they stay the same.

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WHEN Vicky Williams heard her husband, Bryn, sobbing in the bed beside her she decided to take drastic action. Admittedly she was grouchy having been woken in the early hours

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The planet’s rare “tail” was discovered by Nasa’s Hubble Space Telescope despite being 153 light-years from Earth.

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The guarantee that all cancer patients can see a specialist within two weeks is to remain in place, a senior minister says.

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Researchers are applying new stem cell technology to use skin samples to grow the brain cells thought to be responsible for the onset of Parkinson’s disease.

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Gas giant’s atmosphere blown into comet-like tail Observations from the Hubble Space Telescope’s Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) have determined that gas giant HD 209458b is having a really bad hair day, orbiting so close to its star that its atmosphere is being stripped away by cosmic winds and cast into space in a “comet-like tail”.

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Young athletes with Type 1 diabetes may experience a marked decrease in performance as a result of their blood sugar levels, but can compete by learning to manage their condition, suggests a new study.

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EU officials plan to give the 27 member states the freedom to grow, restrict or ban genetically modified (GM) crops.

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The first major study of a disease using stem cells without the need to create and destroy embryos is launched.

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EU officials plan to give the 27 member states the freedom to grow, restrict or ban genetically modified (GM) crops.

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The UK’s first major study of a disease using stem cells that circumvent the need to create and destroy embryos is launched.

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A stem cell therapy for osteoarthritis that could revolutionise its treatment is to be tested on patients for the first time in Britain.

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Individuals with higher levels of vitamin D appear to have a reduced risk of developing Parkinson’s disease, according to a new study.

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The drug giant SmithKline Beecham found in a study as early as 1999 that its diabetes medicine, Avandia, posed risks to the heart, but it never made the information public.

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MORE than half of those killed by swine flu or admitted to hospital with the disease were previously considered to be healthy, new figures have revealed.

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Screening people for Alzheimers disease and treating them early would add a year to the time they spend in less-severe stages of the malady, a Bristol-Myers Squibb Co . study found.

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Stem cell ”pharmacies” that dispense tissue therapies could be as common as chemist shops in 20 years’ time, according to a top scientist.

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Scientists recently spent six weeks in the Atlantic and have now returned with more than 10 samples of possible new species.

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Friday, 5pm – Eighty invited guests gathered at the Sir Joseph Banks Centre in Bridge Street, Horncastle, to watch the High Sheriff of Lincolnshire JAC Godfrey CBE formally open the Sir Joseph Banks Tribute Garden.

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Dramatic images of a new star being created has been captured by the Hubble Space Telescope.

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