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Diabetes Worry 'ups men's diabetes risk' - July 28, 2008 Researchers found men with high levels of 'psychological distress' had more than double the risk of developing type 2 diabetes than those with low levels. The study, which looked at 2,127 men born between 1938 and 1957 and 3,100 women, found no such link in women. The research, published yesterday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, provides added proof that diabetes plays a role in depression and depression plays a role in diabetes. Previous studies have looked at only one aspect of the link Emeryville firm devises Diabetes Risk Test - May 27, 2008 An Emeryville biomedical company is about to market a test that it hopes will reduce the terrible health toll of the U.S. diabetes epidemic and, at the same time, slash the nation's costs for medical care. The diagnostic test to be launched next month by Tethys Bioscience is designed to pick up early signs that a patient will develop the most common type of diabetes - while there's still time to prevent that from happening. Fat Builds Up in Hearts Before Diabetes Onset - September 4, 2007 Fat starts to build up in the hearts of pre-diabetic people before either diabetes or heart disease symptoms appear, according to a new study. Diabetes fears over corn syrup in soda - Septemeber 4, 2007 It's not cast-iron proof that high-fructose corn syrup causes diabetes, but new evidence suggests we should think twice about using it to sweeten soft drinks. Research: Type 2 diabetes could be cured by surgery - September 3, 2007 Surgeons performing duodenal exclusions on obese people with diabetes have noticed that in around 98 percent of cases, the patients' diabetes spontaneously vanished a few weeks after surgery. Diabetes Foot Thermometer - August 16, 2007 More than 20 million children and adults are living with diabetes. Over time, many diabetes lose feeling in their feet and develop major infections which can lead to amputations. Now there's a new tool that's catching the problem before it becomes serious. Breakthrough in obesity battle - July 25, 2007 A breakthrough involving New Zealand scientists points to new ways of handling the developed world's obesity crisis. People who became obese were thought to be victims of bad genes which caused them to pack on the kilos.

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