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Panel Urges Stricter Diabetes Drug Testing

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 04:31:28 GMT

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Panel urges stricter diabetes drug testing

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Diabetes drugs would be subject to more stringent safety standards that could cost manufacturers millions of dollars, under recommendations made Wednesday by a government panel.

Advisers to the Food and Drug Administration voted 14-2 that all new diabetes drugs should undergo longer studies to assure they don't increase risks of heart problems.

The FDA is not required to follow the panel's advise, though it often does.

If the recommendation is adopted, development of diabetes drugs would become longer and more expensive, since it can cost tens of millions of dollars to perform long-term studies that track heart problems in thousands of patients.

Nearly 24 million Americans have Type 2 diabetes, which can lead to kidney failure, blindness and heart disease.

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Stroke Prevention

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:05:39 GMT

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Ultrasound can detect clogged neck arteries and prevent strokes

Hamburg - Detecting clogged arteries in time could prevent many strokes, some 60 per cent of which originate not in the brain but in the neck arteries and heart, according to the German Society for Ultrasound in Medicine (DEGUM) in Hamburg. People at increased risk of arterial disease, including those with a family history of the disorder, people with high blood pressure, and diabetics, should therefore be examined regularly by a physician, DEGUM noted.

It said the extent of blockage in an artery could be detected by ultrasound, a procedure that had no side effects and could be repeated any number of times.

Researchers identify cancer preventive properties in common vitamin supplement

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:00:07 GMT

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clipper's remarks: RESVERATROL I think that I would be incorporating this into my diet straight away, if I was from a family with a history of breast cancer. If it is not what they hope, you won't be much worse off financially.

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PHILADELPHIA – Early laboratory research has shown that resveratrol, a common dietary supplement, suppresses the abnormal cell formation that leads to most types of breast cancer, suggesting a potential role for the agent in breast cancer prevention. Resveratrol is a natural substance found in red wine and red grapes. It is sold in extract form as a dietary supplement at most major drug stores.

"Resveratrol has the ability to prevent the first step that occurs when estrogen starts the process that leads to cancer by blocking the formation of the estrogen DNA adducts. We believe that this could stop the whole progression that leads to breast cancer down the road," said Eleanor G. Rogan, Ph.D., a professor in the Eppley Institute for Research in Cancer and Allied Diseases at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.

Rogan was the lead author of the report that was published in the July 2008 issue of Cancer Prevention Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.

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UK patients to get free healthcare throughout EU

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:19:28 GMT

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Panel Urges Stricter Diabetes Drug Testing

Panel urges stricter diabetes drug testing

Stroke Prevention

Ultrasound can detect clogged neck arteries and prevent strokes

Researchers identify cancer preventive properties in common vitamin supplement

UK patients to get free healthcare throughout EU

NHS patients to get free healthcare throughout EU

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