Health Care Blog

The results of a new study (based at the Mayo Clinic in the US) indicate, people who undergo a specific type of treatment for kidney stones may be at an increased risk of developing diabetes.

Pre-eclampsia, a condition that includes abnormally high blood pressure, in pregnant mother not only can develop the risk of having a stroke during pregnancy but also a risk factor for stroke in the future, researchers at the United States Centres for Disease Control and Prevention reports.

Starting an antiretroviral regimen containing the non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor, efavirenz (Sustiva) causes only modest changes in sleeping patterns, and does not have an adverse effect on quality of life, according to a small UK study published in the May edition of HIV Medicine.

Recent research says that nicotine gum may undermine chemotherapy, as it protects cancer affected cells from chemotherapy drugs.

Indonesia’s agriculture minister said that Indonesia is winning its fight against bird flu and expects to be free of the killer virus by 2008.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Vivitrol, a drug previously sold only in daily pill form, to be available in monthly injection to treat alcoholism.

There has been a preoccupation with AIDS and more recently bird flu, but diabetes and other chronic diseases like cancer, respiratory and heart disease has been escalating.

Further testing has confirmed that a six-year-old dairy cow from the Fraser Valley is the country’s latest victim of mad-cow disease, the fifth Canadian case to be uncovered in the past three years.

A new research says that a single dose of adult donor stem cells given to animals that have neurological damage similar to that experienced by adults with a stroke or newborns with cerebral palsy can significantly enhance recovery from these types of injuries.

A study published in Diabetes Care says, the type of fiber found in whole grains and many vegetables — called insoluble fiber — may help prevent diabetes by improving the body’s use of the blood-sugar-regulating hormone insulin.