health - "medicine"

Suggestions for healthy eating for people with diabetes.

The Government of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg announced on June 5, 2008 the implementation of a strategic partnership initiative with three U.S. research institutions. As part of the initiative, the Government will invest approximately 140 million euros over the next five years as it aims to develop a centre of expertise in the area of molecular medicine.

Researchers from Boston University School of medicine (BUSM) have found that primary care visits reduce hospital utilization among Medicare beneficiaries at the end of life. The recently published study appears in the Journal of General Internal medicine.

How best to alleviate chronic pain, a leading cause of disability and employee absenteeism, continues to perplex both patients and their doctors.A review of recent studies on pain medicine appearing in the June 2008 issue of the Journal of General Internal medicine reports that while various approaches and combinations of therapies to treat pain have advantages and disadvantages, researchers don't yet know how to determine which is best for individual patients.

Nearly half of all heart surgery patients may experience blood sugar levels high enough to require temporary insulin treatment after their operation, even though they've never had diabetes, according to a new study from the University of Michigan health System.And a significant minority of those patients might need to take medicines for days or even weeks after they leave the hospital, to help their blood sugar levels reach normal again, the researchers show.

New data presented at the American Diabetes Association (ADA) 68th Annual Scientific Sessions showed initial combination therapy with 'Januvia'T (sitagliptin), a diabetes medicine from Merck & Co., Inc., and metformin substantially improved selected markers of beta cell function and significantly reduced blood sugar levels (as measured by HbA1c) at one year and in data recently unblinded at two years.

(Teenage Cancer Trust) A specialist cancer nurse will tell Teenage Cancer Trust's Fifth International Conference on Teenage and Young Adult Cancer medicine on Monday how a 20-year-old man waited for ten months before doctors correctly diagnosed him as suffering from Hodgkin lymphoma, after he was delayed by the referral pathway and hospital system. This case study accompanies a separate press release on research by Prof Tim Eden and Ms Sam Smith on delays in diagnosis that young patients face.