Racial minorities who are most likely to be inadequately insured against the costs of illness among those at increased risk of severe complications from coronavirus Even before soaring unemployment caused millions of Americans to lose their health insurance, 18.2 million individuals at increased risk of severe COVID-19 were either uninsured or underinsured, according to a...
Tag: <span>Diabetes</span>
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Type 2 diabetes medication could prevent SARS-CoV-2 from replicating in host cells
As advanced as medical science is, there are still many diseases we cannot treat. For example, there is no cure for COVID-19. However, this doesn’t mean that we cannot help people recover from this disease. Scientists at the University of Waterloo have found that type-2 diabetes helps stopping the spread of the COVID-19 virus in...
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First map of proinsulin’s ‘social network’ reveals new drug target for type 2 diabetes
Study reveals previously unknown protein that helps proinsulin fold and opens new avenues for diabetes research SANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS MEDICAL DISCOVERY INSTITUTE Scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute have mapped for the first time the vast network of proteins that interact with proinsulin, the protein the body normally processes into insulin. The study,...
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What to Know Before You Consider a Short-Term Health Insurance Plan
Lauren Chase Lauren Chase is on the Research team at GoodRx. You may be familiar with the most common avenues for accessing health insurance, like your employer, Medicaid, Medicare, or the individual health exchanges created by the Affordable Care Act (ACA). But if you recently lost coverage through your employer, aged out of your parent’s...
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Patients with COVID-19 may develop thyroid infection
WASHINGTON–COVID-19 infection may cause subacute thyroiditis, according to a new case study published in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. Subacute thyroiditis is an inflammatory thyroid disease characterized by neck pain and is usually preceded by an upper respiratory tract infection. It may be caused by a viral infection or a post-viral inflammatory reaction,...
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What causes a metallic taste and fatigue?
A metallic taste in the mouth, also called dysgeusia or parageusia, is a taste disorder in which a person perceives the taste of metal even though nothing is in the mouth. It can sometimes occur alongside fatigue, which is a constant feeling of exhaustion and lack of energy. A metallic taste by itself may be...
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COVID-19 PUTS KIDS AT GREATER RISK THAN WE THOUGHT
Children, teens, and young adults have a greater risk for severe complications from COVID-19 than previously thought, a new study shows. The study, the first to describe the characteristics of seriously ill pediatric COVID-19 patients in North America, also shows kids with underlying health conditions have an even greater risk. “The idea that COVID-19 is...
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Bone health declining in U.S. adults with and without prediabetes
(HealthDay)—The bone health of adults older than 40 years of age is declining for individuals both with normal glucose regulation and prediabetes, according to a study recently published in Diabetes Care. Chi Chen, M.D., from the Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, and colleagues used data from the U.S. National Health and Nutrition Examination...
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Study confirms diabetes type 3c as early manifestation of pancreatic cancer
by The Spanish National Cancer Research Centre As biomedical sciences incorporate increasingly sophisticated methodologies and technologies, the understanding of diseases improves. Diabetes is a clear example, since new classifications are being added to the traditional classification into type 1 and type 2 diabetes; these new classifications are based on genetic and molecular characteristics that improve...
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Experimental two-in-one shot may give diabetics a better way to control their blood sugar
by Andrew Myers, Stanford University A Stanford research team has developed a way to boost the effectiveness of the insulin injections people with diabetes routinely take to control their blood sugar. Led by materials scientist Eric Appel, the advance might enable patients with diabetes to take a double-acting shot that contains insulin in combination with...