Diabetes & Metabolism: Plant-Based Diet Cuts Diabetes Risk by 24%

Diabetes & Metabolism

Diabetes & Metabolism: Plant-Based Diet Cuts Diabetes Risk by 24%: At least 75 per cent of type 2 diabetes cases could be avoided by adopting a healthy lifestyle. A plant-based diet has been shown to play a key role in this. With limitations – as demonstrated in a study led by Tilman Kühn from MedUni […]

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Rheumatoid arthritis frailty may be reversed

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Frailty may be reversible for some people with rheumatoid arthritis: Rheumatoid arthritis patients living with frailty may find their frailty is reversible following treatment, according to a new study. The research, published in RMD Open and led by the University of Glasgow, looked at frailty – a vulnerability to poor health-outcomes – in people with rheumatoid […]

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UK biobank boosts COVID-19 sample availability

The UK’s leading supplier of human tissue samples is joining forces with a Cambridge Biobank to provide COVID-19 samples for scientists. The only UK-owned virtual biobank, Tissue Solutions, is working with Cambridge Blood and Stem Cell Biobank (CBSB) at the University of Cambridge to increase the turnaround time and usefulness of every COVID-19 sample donated. […]

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AI to help find new heart drugs

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Researchers at Imperial are partnering with Bayer Pharmaceuticals to explore how artificial intelligence (AI) can accelerate the discovery of new drugs for heart conditions. An estimated seven million people are living with heart and circulatory disease in the UK alone, with cardiovascular diseases responsible for one in four deaths. Identifying and treating patients at an […]

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