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Salsalate lowers blood glucose in type 2 diabetes. |
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EurekAlert: Joslin scientists report that salsalate, a drug used to treat arthritis, lowers blood glucose and improves glycemic control in type 2 diabetes. These findings, which were published today by the Annals of Internal Medicine, provide additional evidence that salsalate may be an effective drug to treat type 2 diabetes.
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Brown fat activation may be responsible for accelerated atherosclerosis in winter. |
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EurekAlert: More people die from heart-disease during the winter months, and according to a new study published in the journal Cell Metabolism, the increase in mortality is possibly due to the accelerated growth of atherosclerotic plaque in the blood vessels caused by the activation of brown fat by the cold.
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Drug resistant Staph. aureus commonly found in workers at industrial livestock farms. |
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EurekAlert: Researchers tested the S. aureus isolated from nose swabs for resistance to a range of antibiotics and for genetic markers considered to indicate that the bacteria may have come from livestock.
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VeriGene test detects Gram positive bloodstream infections and resistance genes. |
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EurekAlert: They found that the test was able to correctly identify patients who were positive for a specific infection in 92.6% to 100% of samples and to correctly determine patients that did not have a specific infection in 94.5-100% of samples. However, about 7.5% of cultures contained Gram-positive bacteria that the test was not designed to detect.
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DHA (in fish oil) reduces inflammation via maresin in macrophages. |
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EurekAlert: "We've known for a long time that DHA tames inflammation, now, we learn exactly how DHA works: via new substances called maresins," said Gerald Weissmann, M.D., Editor-in-Chief of The FASEB Journal.
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