viernes, 1 de marzo de 2019

Can An Old Drug Prevent Type 1 Diabetes? - Ivanhoe Broadcast News, Inc.

Can An Old Drug Prevent Type 1 Diabetes? - Ivanhoe Broadcast News, Inc.

Ivanhoe Broadcast News, Inc.




DENVER, Colo. (Ivanhoe Newswire) — Less than ten percent of people with diabetes have type 1 diabetes. Patients with type 1 must take insulin to stay alive and there’s been no way to prevent the disease. Now, for the first time, researchers say there may be a way to prevent or delay the disease in some people with a genetic risk.




BUFFALO, N.Y. (Ivanhoe Newswire) — Pancreatic cancer is one of the most difficult to treat and few patients survive past five years. But researchers are finding new hope in an ancient remedy.




LOS ANGELES, Calif. (Ivanhoe Newswire) — Lumbar spinal stenosis is a narrowing of the spinal canal that happens as we age, sometimes making it painful to stand and walk. Now, doctors are using Vertos Medical’s minimally invasive “MILD” procedure to treat patients and a brand new clinical trial is using popular technology to track improvement in mobility.




BALTIMORE, Md. (Ivanhoe Newswire) — Scalp cooling has been used in one form or another for the past few years to help some cancer patients preserve hair, but those devices were limited to certain patients with breast cancer only.




LOS ANGELES, Calif. (Ivanhoe Newswire) –Hands are often a dead giveaway to age, but most procedures to get rid of them are temporary and the end result less than perfect. They use fillers or fat, which disguises the veins, but doesn’t eliminate them. A vascular surgeon in California is using an in-office technique that’s permanent and painless.








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— Marcus Tullius Cicero




 





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