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Surgery may cure some diabetes cases
NEW YORK, -- A U.S. researcher suggests gastrointestinal by-
pass operations may effectively cure Type 2 diabetes. Dr.-
Francesco Rubino of New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill
Cornell Medical Center said rerouting the gastrointestinal
tract through gastric bypass can cause diabetes remission
independent of any weight loss, even in subjects who are not
obese., The findings are published in the journal Diabetes
Care, the medical center said Wednesday in a news release.
Rubino, chief of gastrointestinal metabolic surgery, said
gastrointestinal bypass procedures control diabetes by by-
passing the upper small intestine -- the duodenum and jej-
unum. "It should not surprise anyone that surgically alter-
ing the bowel's anatomy affects the mechanisms that regulate
blood sugar levels, eventually influencing diabetes," Rubino
said in a statement. He said the operation may work by rev-
ersing abnormalities of blood glucose regulation.
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Necklace helps keep track of pills
ATLANTA, -- U.S. researchers have created a sensor necklace
that someday may help people remember the last time they
took their pills. The MagneTrace records the exact time and
date when specially designed pills are swallowed and lets
the user know if any doses are missed, Maysam Ghovanloo of
the Georgia Institute of Technology said Wednesday in a news
release. The necklace contains an array of magnetic sensors
that can detect when pills containing a tiny magnet passes
through a person's esophagus. The sensors also can be incor-
porated into a patch attached to the chest. "Forgetfulness
is a huge problem, especially among the elderly, but so is
taking the medication at the wrong time, stopping too early
or taking the wrong dose," Ghovanloo said. "Studies show
that drug noncompliance costs the country billions of doll-
ars each year as a result of re-hospitalization, complica-
tions, disease progression and even death." The research
was published in the IEEE Sensors Journal.
Lab will pay to infect people with malaria
SEATTLE, -- Scientists in Seattle plan to pay people
to catch malaria in order to test the safety and efficacy
of new vaccines. The Seattle Biomedical Research Institute
and the PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative are collaborating
to build a Human Challenge Center at SBRI to test new
interventions against the deadly malaria parasite. "This
center will allow us to greatly increase our ability to
evaluate whether a new vaccine formulation should advance
to testing in clinical trials in malaria-endemic populat-
ions," Dr. Christian Loucq of MVI said Wednesday in a state-
ment. The laboratory's Malaria Clinical Trials Center will
be one of only a handful of facilities of its kind in the
world. Volunteers inoculated with a malaria vaccine cand-
idate will be deliberately infected with malaria through
the bite of malaria-infected mosquitoes to assess whether
or not the candidate vaccine can prevent or delay malaria
infection. The Seattle Times said the strain of malaria
used in the testing is a cloned strain that can be quickly
cured. More than 900 people have participated in similar
tests at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. There are
also labs in Britain and the Netherlands, the newspaper
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Doctors use brain scans, ''read minds'
BERKELEY, Calif., -- U.S. scientists said researchers may
soon be able to use brain-scanning instruments to read some-
one's mind. Dr. Jack Gallant, a neuroscientist at the Uni-
versity of California in Berkeley, said his team has figured
out how to use functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)
to tell what someone is looking at based on brain activity.
A report, published online in the journal Nature, said it is
the first step to being able to see the contents of some-
one's visual experiences. "When the deck of cards, or photo-
graphs, has about 120 images, we can do better than 90 per-
cent correct," Gallant said. He said the next step is to in-
terpret what someone is seeing without having the subject
select from known images. The research team said a device
that can read out the brain's activity could be used to
assess damage from strokes, the effect of drug treatments
or to help diagnose conditions such as dementia.
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Gammagard may reduce Alzheimer's risk
CHICAGO, -- A U.S. research firm said the immune-system drug
Gammagard may reduce the risk of contracting Alzheimer's
disease. A study of medical claims data by Surveillance Data
Inc. shows that patients treated with intravenous immunoglo-
bulin, marketed as Gammagard by Baxter International, were
less likely to develop Alzheimer's and related disorders,
the Chicago Tribune said Thursday. The report looked at 847
patients who were treated with Gammagard and 84,700 who were
not. Dementia was diagnosed in 2 percent of treated cases,
compared with 4.2 percent for the untreated control group.
The newspaper said researchers are looking at the possib-
ility that Gammagard can clear the brain of a protein frag-
ment known as beta-amyloid that is thought to be a key in
the development and progression of Alzheimer's.
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