Bisphenol A exposure linked to disease in adults.
Greater exposure to bisphenol A, a chemical compound used in baby bottles and many types of food and beverage packaging, was significantly associated with cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, and liver enzyme abnormalities in a study of more than 1,000 adults. Bisphenol A (BPA) is a component...

NxStage Applauds Array of Studies To Be Presented at American Society of Nephrology Meeting.
Daily Home Hemodialysis and Renal Replacement Therapy in Critical Care Receive Significant Attention LAWRENCE, Mass., Nov. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- NxStage Medical, Inc. , a leading manufacturer of innovative dialysis products, today announced that the annual scientific meeting of the American Society of Nephrology (ASN) will feature multiple...

Ongoing drug safety investigations posted online.
The Food and Drug Administration has posted on its Web site the first quarterly report of drugs identified as having "potential safety issues" that are under evaluation, to keep health care professionals and the public informed about latest drug safety information available, according to the agency. A...

Long-term outlook improving for type 1 patients.
ROME -- The long-term outlook for patients with type 1 diabetes today is improving substantially and is projected to improve further now that intensive therapy is used more widely. That conclusion is based on an analysis of epidemiologic data from two major studies involving three patient cohorts...

RVX-208 Exploratory Study Illustrates Early Potential for Alzheimer's Disease.
First in class drug illustrates early signal of transport of key amyloid marker from brain TSX Exchange Symbol: RVX CALGARY, Nov. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Resverlogix Corp. ("Resverlogix") (TSX:RVX) announced today that treatment with its lead drug RVX-208, a first in class ApoA-I/Prebeta-HDL elevating drug, in...

Greater loss of bone density seen in men with diabetes.
MONTREAL -- Loss of bone mineral density over time appears to be more severe in older men with type 2 diabetes than in older men without diabetes, even though men with diabetes have higher average bone mineral density at baseline. Data from 4 years of follow-up from...

New Research Shows Specific Antioxidant, Found in Cherries, May Boost the Body's Defenses Against the Flu.
Study Links Quercetin To Reduced Risk for Respiratory Infection LANSING, Mich., Nov. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- For those looking for a natural way to stay well this cold and flu season, there's yet another reason to choose cherries, one of today's hottest "Super Fruits." In conjunction with the...

Diabetic retinopathy improved with candesartan.
ROME -- Candesartan helped prevent the development of new retinopathy in patients with type 1 diabetes, and prevented worsening eye disease in patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes, data from international studies showed. This was true even though the primary end points of the individual studies were...

Microbial water quality and influences of fecal accumulation from a dog exercise area.
Introduction Waterborne disease outbreaks have been associated with dispersed sources of animal wastes, such as contamination from animal agriculture (Ferguson, Husman, Altavilla, Deere, & Ashbolt, 2003). Pathogens found in animal wastes may infect people following fecal contamination of drinking or recreational waters (Centers for Disease Control and...

People with diabetes: a population desperate for movement.
"Good stories," said APTA President Scott Ward, "contain complex situations and challenges." (1(p1555)) In that spirit, welcome to PTJ's special issue on diabetes and to the unfolding epic tale of a pervasive metabolic disease that has an impact on every cell and system in the body. Diabetes...