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Bringing a community nursing and physiotherapy team into residential care homes for older people improves quality of life and reduces hospital admissions, according to a new evaluation study's reports published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.

Results from the 'Adjust to Target in Type 2 diabetes: Comparison of a Simple Algorithm to Carbohydrate Counting for Adjustment of Mealtime Insulin Glulisine' study, were published in the American diabetes Association's (ADA) medical journal, Diabetes Care.

Researchers in Germany found that a simple and minimally invasive outpatient treatment for varicoceles, a common cause of male infertility that affects about 1 in 10 men, can significantly improve sperm function and pregnancy rates. The study came from the University of Bonn Medical School and is published in the August issue of Radiology.

A study published in the July/August issue of Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery finds that carbon dioxide laser resurfacing is an effective long-term treatment for facial wrinkles. In carbon dioxide laser resurfacing, a laser blasts water molecules inside and outside of cells, which vaporizes the water and causes heat damage to the surrounding tissue.

Culturally tailored health education appears to help improve some clinical outcomes in the short-term for minorities with type 2 diabetes, according to a study published in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Reuters Health reports. The study noted that language and cultural barriers can serve as obstacles to quality diabetes health education for minorities.

(The Mount Sinai hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine) Researchers at Mount Sinai School of medicine in New York have found that sorafenib (Nexavar) helps patients with advanced liver cancer live about 44 percent longer compared with patients who did not receive the anti-cancer drug. The findings, published in the July 23, 2008, issue of the New England Journal of medicine, is a significant advance in the management of liver cancer, which is the third cause of cancer death globally, often resulting in death within a year of diagnosis.