diabetes

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Universal approach to tackling lifestyles more appropriate for combating diabetes than focusing on genetic risk

20 May 2014

Public health strategies aimed at tackling obesity at a population level through lifestyle changes are more appropriate for preventing type 2...

Overnight home use of artificial pancreas ‘feasible and beneficial’

22 Apr 2014

Children with type 1 diabetes have been able to use pioneering artificial pancreas technology, developed at the University of Cambridge, for the...

Yoghurt cuts risk of type 2 diabetes

06 Feb 2014

Eating more yoghurt can reduce the risk of new-onset type 2 diabetes, researchers at Cambridge have found.

Novel genetic mutations cause low metabolic rate and obesity

25 Oct 2013

Researchers believe the gene could be a useful therapeutic target for treating obesity and type 2 diabetes

MRC and Wellcome Trust invest £24m in Cambridge obesity institute

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Womb and prostate cancer link revealed

18 Apr 2011

Scientists have carried out the first ever genome scan for womb cancer and discovered a genetic region that reduces risk of the disease, according to...

Artificial pancreas: 1. Glucose levels monitored continuously 2. Required insulin dose calculated 3. Insulin does delivered automatically

Artificial pancreas promise for common diabetes complication

15 Apr 2011

Cambridge research funded by the health charity Diabetes UK has for the first time successfully demonstrated the potential of an ‘artificial pancreas...

You are what your mother ate

21 Mar 2011

Research provides new insight into why poor diet during pregnancy negatively affects offspring’s long term health.

Middle aged diabetics can die six years earlier

14 Mar 2011

Having diabetes in mid-life may reduce a person’s life expectancy by an average of six years, according to a large, multinational study coordinated...