Tag Archives: Diabetes

Want to Defeat Coronavirus? Address Diabetes and Hypertension

While the World Health Organization has put the death rate from novel coronavirus, COVID-19, at 3.4%, a study in Nature Medicine put it much lower, at 1.4%. The fact is, with many cases going unreported and untested, mild and asymptomatic cases may not be included in official COVID-19 death rate figures, which could skew the… Read More: Want to Defeat Coronavirus? Address Diabetes and Hypertension »

Miriam Stoppard: Diabetes drug could help end the pain of miscarriage

The grief of losing an unborn baby is impossible to imagine. To suffer more than one ­miscarriage is almost more than flesh can bear. There are various research projects under way that are trying to fathom why miscarriages happen at all and one possible cause has been found by Warwick University researchers. They believe a… Read More: Miriam Stoppard: Diabetes drug could help end the pain of… »

How Coffee Could Protect Against Type 2 Diabetes

A possible molecular mechanism explaining the protective effect of coffee against type 2 diabetes has been discovered. The biological activity of estrogen and testosterone, the sex hormones of the body, which are believed to play a part in type 2 diabetes development are regulated by a protein known as SHBG (sex hormone-binding globulin). And it… Read More: How Coffee Could Protect Against Type 2 Diabetes »