Using the new Imaging Mass Cytometry method, researchers of UZH have investigated; the pancreas of healthy organ donors and those with type 1 diabetes. The study shows that many beta cells, which normally produce insulin; and still present in the early stages of the disease, but look very different. These beta cells could potentially be…
It is said that the eyes are the window to the soul, but they may also open the door for discovering new ways to achieve immune tolerance to transplanted islets in type 1 diabetes, according to research from the Diabetes Research Institute (DRI) at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. The findings, which…
January 2019 saw the launch of the EU research project EDCMET, in which scientists from the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) are also involved. EDCMET stands for “Metabolic effects of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals; novel testing METhods and adverse outcome path-ways; and is aim at developing methods to identify chemical compounds; that disrupt metabolic…
For the first time, neoadjuvant chemotherapy has been shown to improve survival in patients with resectable pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC). The finding comes from a Japanese study, which used perioperative chemotherapy with neoadjuvant gemcitabine and S-1 (Taiho Pharmaceutical), as well as adjuvant S-1. The 2-year overall survival rates were 63.7% for the group who received…
For the first time, neoadjuvant chemotherapy has been shown to improve survival in patients with resectable pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC). The finding comes from a Japanese study, which used perioperative chemotherapy with neoadjuvant gemcitabine and S-1 (Taiho Pharmaceutical), as well as adjuvant S-1.
The reader is also introduced to the different thyroid nodule risk stratification systems in ultrasound imaging, when and how to perform thyroid fine needle aspiration biopsies, and the use of percutaneous ethanol injections for cystic thyroid nodules.
UK researchers have shown that in patients with type 1 diabetes who have well-trained medical alert "diabetes" dogs, the animals have greater sensitivity to changes in blood glucose than has been shown in previous studies.
Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers say an unexpected finding during the cellular analysis of human pancreatic tissue has revealed new information about a rare type of diabetes and underscores the importance of genetic testing for some individuals diagnosed with type 1 diabetes.
Endocrine disruptors (EDs) are a class of chemicals used to produce materials commonly found in everyday life, such as some plastics, tin cans, electrical and household appliances, cosmetics, pesticides, etc. EDs are, however, not without danger: these molecules interfere with the endocrine system, disrupting the physiological production and the target effects of hormones
Lifestyle and health factors that are good for your heart can also prevent diabetes, according to a new study by researchers at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and College of Medicine that published today in Diabetologia, the journal of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes.
A multidisciplinary team, led by Dr. Marietta Stadler from the School of Life Course Sciences, has been awarded £1.25 million by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) to investigate an eating disorder where people with type 1 diabetes deliberately take too little insulin to try and control their weight.
Physicians in North America are more likely to treat hypothyroidism with combination therapy by adding synthetic liothyronine (LT3) to the standard therapy of synthetic levothyroxine (LT4) replacement compared with physicians in other countries.