Type 1 diabetes is a form of diabetes mellitus that is caused by the body’s own immune system attacking its pancreatic islet β cells. These cells would normally produce insulin, which regulates glucose metabolism. Therefore, type 1 diabetic patients require life-long daily insulin injections in order to avoid health complications such as atherosclerosis, neuropathy and… Read more »
"Launched in 2003 with financial backing from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Avahan is the world’s largest HIV prevention programme. ‘Learning from large scale prevention efforts – findings from Avahan’ is a newly published supplement in BMC Public Health, Edited by Lalit Dandona and Eric Benotsch, that documents the role of the initiative in… Read more »
Hepatocellular carcinoma is the third highest cause of cancer-related death world-wide. Although several treatments are available – and many more are undergoing clinical trials – drug resistance is a problem in some cases. In the latest issue of Genome Medicine, Matthias Schwab and colleagues show for the first time that there is a link between… Read more »