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	<title type="text">Simple Thoughts - Java and Web Blog &#187; Diabetes</title>
	<subtitle type="text">News and views from a Software Architect and Web Entrepreneur on Java, PHP and Web 2.0 Technologies.</subtitle>

	<updated>2009-10-11T17:57:52Z</updated>
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			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Top 5 Gadgets for Diabetes Patients]]></title>
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		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/?p=7442</id>
		<updated>2009-04-11T20:13:17Z</updated>
		<published>2009-04-11T20:55:22Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Diabetes" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Health Network" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Life" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="diabetes gadgets" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="top diabetics gadgets" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="top gadgets for diabetes" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[What can not be cured must be endured. And diabetes perfectly fits in to this category. Any disease is bad but diabetes is perhaps the most annoying and widely spread disease in the world. You can not come out with it, you don't know when you will fall prey or how to prevent it in [...]]]></summary>
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		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[4 Safe Weight Loss Tips From FDA]]></title>
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		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/4-safe-weight-loss-tips-from-fda/</id>
		<updated>2007-06-20T04:08:38Z</updated>
		<published>2007-06-20T04:08:38Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Diabetes" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Health Network" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="How To" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Fda" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Obesity" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="What" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Most of us, myself excluded, aspires to be thin especially so much so that they often adopt unhealthy practices which lead to bulimia or diabulimia. Here are some safe tips from FDA which doesn't involve consulting a doctor and can be done by you without external help.

Safe Dieting
Men and very active women may need up [...]]]></summary>
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		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Diabulimia: Forced Weight Loss by Diabetics Can Kill]]></title>
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		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/diabulimia-forced-weight-loss-by-diabetics-can-kill/</id>
		<updated>2007-06-20T03:56:18Z</updated>
		<published>2007-06-20T03:51:24Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Diabetes" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Health Network" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Kidney" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Eye" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Insulin" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Obesity" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Why" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Diabulimia is a new term used to describe an eating disorder that’s beginning to victimize type I diabetics. As with any other eating disorder teens are the most likely to develop it. The complication is not limited to teenagers only. Any insulin dependent diabetic can become a victim. Diabulimia is developed when a type I [...]]]></summary>
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		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[What Matters Most To You &amp; Me As A Blogger]]></title>
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		<updated>2007-06-12T11:57:40Z</updated>
		<published>2007-06-10T18:55:05Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Diabetes" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Health Network" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Kidney" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Pro Blogging" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Society" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web 2.0" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web Hosting" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web Services" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Embryonic stem cell research" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Eye" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Fact" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Stem Cell Research" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="What" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Darren Rowse posted an interesting question: "What matters most to you as a blogger". Here's my answer:
1. Blog as repository of knowledge. I am an avid reader; I learn new things everyday. However I keep my RAM (quick search memory) very small. Consequently I frequently refer to my blog and then to Google to find [...]]]></summary>
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	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Study: Exercise Reduces Age At Cellular Level in Seniors]]></title>
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		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/study-exercise-reduces-age-at-cellular-level-in-seniors/</id>
		<updated>2007-05-27T14:09:10Z</updated>
		<published>2007-05-27T14:09:10Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Diabetes" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Health Network" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Life" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Insulin" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Obesity" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="What" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Most of us know that exercise is good for us. It boosts circulation and tones the cardiovascular system. It builds strength, burns calories and reduces depression. It improves insulin sensitivity in people with diabetes. It may even help delay the onset of Alzheimer's disease. But can you even imagine that it can partially reverse aging [...]]]></summary>
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	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Sun Microsystems Wins Top Technology Innovation Award 2006 For DTrace Software]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/sun-microsystems-wins-top-technology-innovation-award-2006-for-dtrace-software/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/sun-micro-wins-top-technology-innovation-award-2006-for-dtrace-software/</id>
		<updated>2006-09-12T05:45:37Z</updated>
		<published>2006-09-12T05:42:31Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Diabetes" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Health Network" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Technology" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="USA" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Insulin" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="New York" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[The DTrace trouble-shooting software from Sun Microsystems was chosen as the Gold winner in The Wall Street Journal's 2006 Technology Innovation Awards contest, the second time in three years that a Sun entry has won the top award. Bryan Cantrill and a team of engineers at Sun Microsystems Inc. created DTrace which allows you to [...]]]></summary>
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		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[The Lies Of Embryonic Stem Cell Research Objections or One Woman With Two Souls Ridicules Religious Zealots]]></title>
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		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/?p=1537</id>
		<updated>2006-08-18T17:46:59Z</updated>
		<published>2006-08-18T16:54:49Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Diabetes" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Health Network" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Kidney" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="USA" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Cases" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Eye" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Eyes" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="George" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Stem Cell Research" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Stem cells" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="What" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[
Don’t you just love it when evidence emerges challenging unprovable religious preconceptions espoused by the Pope, the Roman Catholic Church, hardline Islamists, not to mention beloved President George Bush and his own fundamentalist Christian supporters.
What they all believe is that at the instant when an embryo is formed by fertilisation of a human egg by [...]]]></summary>
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		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[How To Search US Clinical Trial Data Using Google Base]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/us-clinical-trial-data-in-google-base/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/us-clinical-trial-data-in-google-base/</id>
		<updated>2006-08-14T07:24:53Z</updated>
		<published>2006-08-10T13:48:59Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Diabetes" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Google" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Health Network" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="How To" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web Services" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Google base" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Google Base team worked with the U.S. government to get clinical trial data from http://www.clinicaltrials.gov.

Now you can search US clinical trial data here.
Here is, for example, a search result for diabetes:
Prevention of Diabetes Mellitus Development in Women Who Had Already Experienced A Gestational Diabetes.
I think this will be a very useful resource for scientists and [...]]]></summary>
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		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Diabetes Cure Possible]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/diabetes-cure-breakthrough/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/diabetes-cure-breakthrough/</id>
		<updated>2006-06-18T19:33:30Z</updated>
		<published>2006-06-18T18:11:37Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Diabetes" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Health Network" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Life" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Insulin" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Type 1 diabetes" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Cure for diabetes could be around the corner after US scientists found cells from the spleen can transform into insulin-producing cells. US researchers were able to halt, and even reverse, the disease in mice.

The research by Massachusetts General Hospital offers hope to millions of people with Type 1 diabetes who need daily insulin injections to [...]]]></summary>
		<link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/diabetes-cure-breakthrough/#comments" thr:count="5"/>
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		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Health News Summary: Cervical Cancer Vaccine, Angioplasty Risk, Oral Cancer, Diabetic Women and Birth Defects]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/health-news-summary-cervical-cancer-vaccine-angioplasty-risk-oral-cancer-diabetic-women-and-birth-defects/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/?p=798</id>
		<updated>2005-10-07T20:08:38Z</updated>
		<published>2005-10-07T20:04:31Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Diabetes" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Health Network" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I have moved the coverage of all Health related news to a separate blog - Consanesco. Here is the summary of important news from this week:

Cervical Cancer Preventable with Vaccination
Repeat Angioplasty Increases Heart Attack Risk
NSAID Lowers Oral Cancer Risk in Smokers; Increases Heart Disease Risk
Why Babies of Diabetic Women with are 2-5 Times more Likely [...]]]></summary>
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		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[FDA OK&#8217;s Cholesterol Drug Lipitor for Diabetics]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/fda-oks-cholesterol-drug-lipitor-for-diabetics/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/fda-oks-cholesterol-drug-lipitor-for-diabetics/</id>
		<updated>2005-09-30T06:17:36Z</updated>
		<published>2005-09-27T13:59:33Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Biotechnology" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Diabetes" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Health Network" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Fda" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Signs" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Pfizer Inc. said U.S. regulators (FDA) have approved its cholesterol lowering drug Lipitor. Lipitor is used to reduce the risk of stroke and heart attack in diabetic patients.

The approval is for patients with type 2, or adult onset, diabetes (NIDDM) who have no signs of heart disease but have multiple risk factors (described below) for [...]]]></summary>
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		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Tingling Feet may Lead-up to Diabetes]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/tingling-feet-may-lead-up-to-diabetes/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/tingling-feet-may-lead-up-to-diabetes/</id>
		<updated>2005-09-13T18:19:38Z</updated>
		<published>2005-09-13T18:19:38Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Diabetes" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Health Network" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[University of Utah researchers have determined tingling in the feet (neuropathy) could be an early warning indicator for impaired glucose tolerance, or prediabetes.

67 patients underwent nerve conduction studies as well as a series of other neuropathy testing. They were compared to 52 patients with diabetic neuropathy and 42 with diabetes but no neuropathy. The findings [...]]]></summary>
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	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Canine Robot Coach to keep Dieter&#8217;s on a Leash]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/canine-robot-coach-to-keep-dieters-on-a-leash/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/canine-robot-coach-to-keep-dieters-on-a-leash/</id>
		<updated>2005-09-08T06:22:59Z</updated>
		<published>2005-09-08T06:22:59Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Diabetes" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Health Network" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Technology" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="USA" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Who is" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[A ROBOT dog that monitors your daily food intake and exercise levels and warns you not to eat that cheesecake could encourage people to stick to their diets.
The health-conscious dog connects wirelessly to the dieter's pedometer and an electronic diary of their eating habits, to calculate their daily calorie intake and expenditure.

Its US developers from [...]]]></summary>
		<link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/canine-robot-coach-to-keep-dieters-on-a-leash/#comments" thr:count="0"/>
		<link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/canine-robot-coach-to-keep-dieters-on-a-leash/feed/atom/" thr:count="0"/>
		<thr:total>0</thr:total>
	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Excessive Sleepiness May Signal Depression, Diabetes or Obesity]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/excessive-sleepiness-may-signal-depression-diabetes-or-obesity/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/excessive-sleepiness-may-signal-depression-diabetes-or-obesity/</id>
		<updated>2005-09-08T04:34:35Z</updated>
		<published>2005-09-08T04:34:35Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Diabetes" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Health Network" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="China" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Doctors commonly view excessive daytime sleepiness as a cardinal sign of disturbed or inadequate sleep. But a new study suggests it could also signal depression or even diabetes or obesity, regardless of whether an individual doesn't sleep well.

Among a random sample of 16,500 men and women ranging in age from 20 to 100 years old [...]]]></summary>
		<link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/excessive-sleepiness-may-signal-depression-diabetes-or-obesity/#comments" thr:count="1"/>
		<link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/excessive-sleepiness-may-signal-depression-diabetes-or-obesity/feed/atom/" thr:count="1"/>
		<thr:total>1</thr:total>
	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Moderately High Insulin Levels May Contribute to Alzheimer&#8217;s Disease]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/moderately-high-insulin-levels-may-contribute-to-alzheimers-disease/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/moderately-high-insulin-levels-may-contribute-to-alzheimers-disease/</id>
		<updated>2005-08-11T14:22:23Z</updated>
		<published>2005-08-11T14:22:23Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Diabetes" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Health Network" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Insulin" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Moderately elevated levels of insulin increase the levels of inflammatory markers and beta-amyloid in plasma and in cerebrospinal fluid, and these markers may contribute to Alzheimer's disease, according to a new study posted online today from Archives of Neurology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. The study will be published in the October print edition of [...]]]></summary>
		<link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/moderately-high-insulin-levels-may-contribute-to-alzheimers-disease/#comments" thr:count="0"/>
		<link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/moderately-high-insulin-levels-may-contribute-to-alzheimers-disease/feed/atom/" thr:count="0"/>
		<thr:total>0</thr:total>
	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Link between Fat Tissue and Diabetes Discovered]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/link-between-fat-tissue-and-diabetes-discovered/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/link-between-fat-tissue-and-diabetes-discovered/</id>
		<updated>2005-08-09T11:58:21Z</updated>
		<published>2005-08-09T11:58:21Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Diabetes" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Health Network" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Insulin" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="School" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Overweight or obese has long been recognized as a risk factor for type 2 diabetes. The results of a new study are clarifying the nature of the link between weight and diabetes. According to a report published today in the Nature, a protein released by fat tissue causes insulin resistance in mice.

Overweight people have protein [...]]]></summary>
		<link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/link-between-fat-tissue-and-diabetes-discovered/#comments" thr:count="0"/>
		<link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/link-between-fat-tissue-and-diabetes-discovered/feed/atom/" thr:count="0"/>
		<thr:total>0</thr:total>
	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Diabetes Treatment by Consuming Tea]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/a-cup-of-tea-for-diabetes-treatment/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/a-cup-of-tea-for-diabetes-treatment/</id>
		<updated>2005-08-09T11:59:56Z</updated>
		<published>2005-08-09T10:51:53Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Diabetes" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Health Network" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Eye" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Joe" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="More" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Study conducted by researchers at the University of Scranton suggests that tea might prevent diabetes and its associated complications, including diabetic cataracts.

Researchers led by Joe Vinson fed green and black tea to diabetic rats for three months and then monitored the chemical composition of the rats' blood and eye lenses.
At levels that would be equivalent [...]]]></summary>
		<link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/a-cup-of-tea-for-diabetes-treatment/#comments" thr:count="0"/>
		<link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/a-cup-of-tea-for-diabetes-treatment/feed/atom/" thr:count="0"/>
		<thr:total>0</thr:total>
	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Volunteers Needed for Inhaled Insulin Study]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/volunteers-needed-for-inhaled-insulin-study/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/volunteers-needed-for-inhaled-insulin-study/</id>
		<updated>2005-07-28T05:18:13Z</updated>
		<published>2005-07-28T05:18:13Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Diabetes" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Health Network" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Technology" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="USA" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Insulin" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Insulin pump" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="School" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Researchers at Indiana University School of Medicine are looking for 400 people with type 1 diabetes to volunteer for a study of an inhaled insulin treatment.

The Indiana University School of Medicine is one of 70 sites around the world testing the treatment developed by Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly and Co. 
Requirements:
Participants must be type 1 diabetes [...]]]></summary>
		<link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/volunteers-needed-for-inhaled-insulin-study/#comments" thr:count="5"/>
		<link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/volunteers-needed-for-inhaled-insulin-study/feed/atom/" thr:count="5"/>
		<thr:total>5</thr:total>
	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Internet Program Launched To Prevent Blindness In Diabetic Patients]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/internet-program-launched-to-prevent-blindness-in-diabetic-patients/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/internet-program-launched-to-prevent-blindness-in-diabetic-patients/</id>
		<updated>2005-07-19T03:07:25Z</updated>
		<published>2005-07-19T03:07:25Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Diabetes" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Health Network" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="USA" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="School" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[A Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center team is launching a high-tech study to determine if early screening using a special camera and images transmitted over the Internet can prevent blindness in Medicaid patients with diabetes.

"Medicaid patients are rarely screened and are at risk of becoming blind," said Ramon Velez, M.D., M. Sc., the principal [...]]]></summary>
		<link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/internet-program-launched-to-prevent-blindness-in-diabetic-patients/#comments" thr:count="0"/>
		<link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/internet-program-launched-to-prevent-blindness-in-diabetic-patients/feed/atom/" thr:count="0"/>
		<thr:total>0</thr:total>
	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Single Insulin Regulator Gene Linked to Obesity and Diabates]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/single-insulin-regulator-gene-linked-to-obesity-and-diabates/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/single-insulin-regulator-gene-linked-to-obesity-and-diabates/</id>
		<updated>2005-07-19T02:26:55Z</updated>
		<published>2005-07-19T02:26:55Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Diabetes" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Health Network" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="College" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="France" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Help" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Insulin" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[A gene that may regulate the body's response to insulin has been linked to both obesity and type-2 diabetes, researchers in Britain and France reported on Monday.

Scientists found 11 different variations of the gene, called single nucleotide polymorphisms or SNPs. Six of these forms were linked with severe obesity.
The discovery helps explain how being overweight [...]]]></summary>
		<link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/single-insulin-regulator-gene-linked-to-obesity-and-diabates/#comments" thr:count="0"/>
		<link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/single-insulin-regulator-gene-linked-to-obesity-and-diabates/feed/atom/" thr:count="0"/>
		<thr:total>0</thr:total>
	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Pizza&#8217;s are Bad News for Diabetics]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/pizzas-are-bad-news-for-diabetics/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/pizzas-are-bad-news-for-diabetics/</id>
		<updated>2005-07-17T14:33:05Z</updated>
		<published>2005-07-17T14:32:00Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Diabetes" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Health Network" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="College" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Help" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Insulin" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Insulin pump" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Insulin pumps" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA["Keeping glucose levels from jumping too high or dipping too low may help to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease, which has been connected to erratic glucose levels in those with diabetes," said Robert Gabbay, MD, Ph.D., associate professor of medicine, Penn State College of Medicine, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Centre, and co-director, [...]]]></summary>
		<link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/pizzas-are-bad-news-for-diabetics/#comments" thr:count="0"/>
		<link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/pizzas-are-bad-news-for-diabetics/feed/atom/" thr:count="0"/>
		<thr:total>0</thr:total>
	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Breaking News: European Study Reports Halting of Progress of Type 1 Diabetes by Drug Anti-CD3 Antibody]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/breaking-news-european-study-reports-halting-of-progress-of-type-1-diabetes-by-drug-anti-cd3-antibody/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/breaking-news-european-study-reports-halting-of-progress-of-type-1-diabetes-by-drug-anti-cd3-antibody/</id>
		<updated>2005-07-17T14:20:44Z</updated>
		<published>2005-07-17T14:20:44Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Diabetes" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Health Network" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Cases" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Diabetes research" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Insulin" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Paris" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[The European study of patients with Type I diabetes found that short-term treatment lowered insulin dependence by 12 percent and increased insulin-making capabilities for at least 18 months.
"The results are very promising. There are not many instances where you can stop an autoimmune disease in its tracks," said Dr. Richard Insel, executive vice president for [...]]]></summary>
		<link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/breaking-news-european-study-reports-halting-of-progress-of-type-1-diabetes-by-drug-anti-cd3-antibody/#comments" thr:count="0"/>
		<link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/breaking-news-european-study-reports-halting-of-progress-of-type-1-diabetes-by-drug-anti-cd3-antibody/feed/atom/" thr:count="0"/>
		<thr:total>0</thr:total>
	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Pet Owners Warned of Diabetes Risk]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/pet-owners-warned-of-diabetes-risk/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/pet-owners-warned-of-diabetes-risk/</id>
		<updated>2005-07-17T07:49:24Z</updated>
		<published>2005-07-17T07:49:24Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Diabetes" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Health Network" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Pets World" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[The RSPCA is urging pet owners to be aware of diseases that pets can have that are normally not associated with animals like diabetes.

Amid National Diabetes Week, the RSPCA says even though it is a rare disease in animals, it can still happen.
Symptoms owners should be aware of animals include drinking and urinating more, initially [...]]]></summary>
		<link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/pet-owners-warned-of-diabetes-risk/#comments" thr:count="0"/>
		<link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/pet-owners-warned-of-diabetes-risk/feed/atom/" thr:count="0"/>
		<thr:total>0</thr:total>
	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Ruboxistaurin (RBX) May Reduce Risk of Vision Loss in Diabetics]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/ruboxistaurin-rbx-may-reduce-risk-of-vision-loss-in-diabetics/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/ruboxistaurin-rbx-may-reduce-risk-of-vision-loss-in-diabetics/</id>
		<updated>2005-07-16T07:42:43Z</updated>
		<published>2005-07-16T07:42:43Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Diabetes" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Health Network" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Eye" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Eye institute" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="School" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="United Kingdom" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[A multicenter international study chaired by a Joslin Diabetes Center investigator and reported in the July issue of the American Diabetes Association’s journal Diabetes brings hopeful news to the 18 million people in the United States &#8212; and millions more worldwide &#8212; with type 1 or type 2 diabetes. Initial results of the Phase III [...]]]></summary>
		<link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/ruboxistaurin-rbx-may-reduce-risk-of-vision-loss-in-diabetics/#comments" thr:count="3"/>
		<link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/ruboxistaurin-rbx-may-reduce-risk-of-vision-loss-in-diabetics/feed/atom/" thr:count="3"/>
		<thr:total>3</thr:total>
	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Drug for Diabetic Nephropathy in Phase 3 Trial]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/drug-for-diabetic-nephropathy-in-phase-3-trial/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/drug-for-diabetic-nephropathy-in-phase-3-trial/</id>
		<updated>2005-07-07T16:53:06Z</updated>
		<published>2005-07-07T16:53:06Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Diabetes" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Health Network" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Kidney" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Speedel announced today the start of its Phase III study for SPP301, its once-a-day oral endothelin A receptor antagonist (ERA) in the indication of diabetic nephropathy (diabetic kidney disease). The ASCEND(1) study has begun with the first patient visit as per the schedule outlined by Speedel in March 2005 when the company reported successful completion [...]]]></summary>
		<link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/drug-for-diabetic-nephropathy-in-phase-3-trial/#comments" thr:count="0"/>
		<link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/drug-for-diabetic-nephropathy-in-phase-3-trial/feed/atom/" thr:count="0"/>
		<thr:total>0</thr:total>
	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Anouncement: The Stem Cell Blog - News and Hard Facts on Stem Cell Research and Treatment Options]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/anouncement-the-stem-cell-blog-news-and-hard-facts-on-stem-cell-research-and-treatment-options/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/anouncement-the-stem-cell-blog-news-and-hard-facts-on-stem-cell-rsearch-and-treatment-options/</id>
		<updated>2005-08-18T00:08:38Z</updated>
		<published>2005-07-02T11:40:20Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Biotechnology" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Diabetes" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Health Network" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Kidney" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Stem Cell Research" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Eye" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Justice" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[We have forked of our coverage of Stem Cell Research news and views in our recently launched The Stem Cell Blog. You will find it much more active than it was under the folds of multi-faceted Simple Thoughts Blog. 

I think we can do better justice to this topic (Stem Cell Research) in an independent [...]]]></summary>
		<link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/anouncement-the-stem-cell-blog-news-and-hard-facts-on-stem-cell-research-and-treatment-options/#comments" thr:count="12"/>
		<link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/anouncement-the-stem-cell-blog-news-and-hard-facts-on-stem-cell-research-and-treatment-options/feed/atom/" thr:count="12"/>
		<thr:total>12</thr:total>
	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Consolidated Health News for the week ending June 12, 2005]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/consolidated-health-news-for-the-week-ending-june-12-2005/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/?p=498</id>
		<updated>2005-06-10T13:24:25Z</updated>
		<published>2005-06-10T12:52:26Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Diabetes" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Health Network" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Kidney" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Science" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Three Transplant Patiet have died due to rare infection (LCMV virus) from rats, raises concern for all transplant patients. On a different front educated women are less likely to suffer from insomnia. And it appears that milk is destined to make a comeback. It had really a bad press all along.]]></summary>
		<link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/consolidated-health-news-for-the-week-ending-june-12-2005/#comments" thr:count="0"/>
		<link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/consolidated-health-news-for-the-week-ending-june-12-2005/feed/atom/" thr:count="0"/>
		<thr:total>0</thr:total>
	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[First Type 1 Diabetic on South Summit of Mount Everest]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/first-type-1-diabetic-on-south-summit-of-mount-everest/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/?p=484</id>
		<updated>2005-06-01T07:29:35Z</updated>
		<published>2005-06-01T07:27:58Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Diabetes" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Health Network" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Life" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="USA" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Insulin" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Summit" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[With supplemental oxygen, Will Cross, 37 became the first person with type 1 diabetes to reach the South Summit of Mt. Everest. That put him just shy of the top of the 29,029-foot mountain.
while this is not the top, is a great achievement for a   type 1 diabetic. Will has called in and [...]]]></summary>
		<link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/first-type-1-diabetic-on-south-summit-of-mount-everest/#comments" thr:count="1"/>
		<link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/first-type-1-diabetic-on-south-summit-of-mount-everest/feed/atom/" thr:count="1"/>
		<thr:total>1</thr:total>
	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Insulin in oral capsule by Moscow scientists]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/smart-capsule-for-insulin/" />
		<id>/?p=479</id>
		<updated>2005-05-30T15:46:50Z</updated>
		<published>2005-05-30T15:32:53Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Diabetes" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Health Network" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Fact" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Insulin" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[The Moscow chemists have found a way to deliver insulin in pills instead of injections.
        
    ]]></summary>
		<link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/smart-capsule-for-insulin/#comments" thr:count="0"/>
		<link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/smart-capsule-for-insulin/feed/atom/" thr:count="0"/>
		<thr:total>0</thr:total>
	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[New gene found to contribute to autoimmune diseases (such as diabetes or lupus)]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/new-gene-shows-way-for-autoimmune-disease/" />
		<id>/?p=481</id>
		<updated>2005-05-30T15:16:54Z</updated>
		<published>2005-05-30T15:13:04Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Diabetes" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Health Network" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="National university" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[A new gene suspected to contribute to autoimmune diseases such as type 1 diabetes and lupus - a condition in which the body’s own immune system attacks organs such as the kidneys and skin - has been discovered by Australian National University (ANU) immunologists.
        
    ]]></summary>
		<link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/new-gene-shows-way-for-autoimmune-disease/#comments" thr:count="0"/>
		<link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/new-gene-shows-way-for-autoimmune-disease/feed/atom/" thr:count="0"/>
		<thr:total>0</thr:total>
	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Stem Cell Hypocrisy of Bush Government]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/stem-cell-hypocrisy-of-bush-government/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/stem-cell-hypocrisy-of-bush-government/</id>
		<updated>2005-07-03T03:10:17Z</updated>
		<published>2005-05-27T06:00:23Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Biotechnology" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Diabetes" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Health Network" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Science" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Stem Cell Research" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[LATimes has a scathing editorial on the Stem Cell hypocrisy practiced by Bush and his government.
Photographs in Wednesday's papers of President Bush with cuddly little babies, all of whom were produced from surplus fertilized eggs at fertility clinics, represent a White House attempt to deal with the biggest flaw in logic regarding its stem cell [...]]]></summary>
		<link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/stem-cell-hypocrisy-of-bush-government/#comments" thr:count="0"/>
		<link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/stem-cell-hypocrisy-of-bush-government/feed/atom/" thr:count="0"/>
		<thr:total>0</thr:total>
	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Rep. Senator Diana DeGette supports stem-cell research; Shouldn&#8217;t you too?]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/rep-senator-diana-degette-supports-stem-cell-research/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/rep-senator-diana-degette-supports-stem-cell-research/</id>
		<updated>2005-05-23T18:17:23Z</updated>
		<published>2005-05-23T16:37:11Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Diabetes" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Health Network" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Kidney" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Denver" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="House" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Insulin" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Insulin pump" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Stem cells" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[DeGette, a Denver Democrat, and Rep. Mike Castle, R-Del., are sponsoring a bill that would add new ethical standards and increase the number of lines of embryonic stem cells available for federally funded disease research. The bill is expected to come up for a vote in the House of Representatives on Tuesday.

Alex Howard carries an [...]]]></summary>
		<link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/rep-senator-diana-degette-supports-stem-cell-research/#comments" thr:count="0"/>
		<link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/rep-senator-diana-degette-supports-stem-cell-research/feed/atom/" thr:count="0"/>
		<thr:total>0</thr:total>
	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[New hope for people with hepatitis C]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/new-hope-for-people-with-hepatitis-c/" />
		<id>/?p=454</id>
		<updated>2005-05-23T15:28:20Z</updated>
		<published>2005-05-23T07:56:00Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Diabetes" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Health Network" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[University of New South Wales (UNSW) researchers are running two new studies on hepatitis C, which could revolutionise treatment for the virus.

It is hoped that one study could lead to cure rates of almost 100 percent in those who have just been infected with the virus. The US-funded Australian Trial in Acute Hepatitis C (ATAHC) [...]]]></summary>
		<link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/new-hope-for-people-with-hepatitis-c/#comments" thr:count="2"/>
		<link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/new-hope-for-people-with-hepatitis-c/feed/atom/" thr:count="2"/>
		<thr:total>2</thr:total>
	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[How to eat ravenously and stay thin; science proves what I suspected all along]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/hydroxycitric-acid-delays-intestinal-glucose-absorption-indirect-insulinsugar-effect-could-point-to-therapeutic-effect/" />
		<id>/?p=455</id>
		<updated>2005-05-23T15:34:52Z</updated>
		<published>2005-05-23T07:56:00Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Diabetes" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Health Network" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Science" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Friends" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[All along my life I had wondered how South-Indian, especially Madrasis (aka Chennaites) can eat ravenously (at least my friends) and still manage to maintain a stick like figure.
Now I know.

They consume large quantities of imli (tamarind) pani (water) in the form of Sambar and Rasam which helps to control their sugar better and keeps [...]]]></summary>
		<link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/hydroxycitric-acid-delays-intestinal-glucose-absorption-indirect-insulinsugar-effect-could-point-to-therapeutic-effect/#comments" thr:count="4"/>
		<link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/hydroxycitric-acid-delays-intestinal-glucose-absorption-indirect-insulinsugar-effect-could-point-to-therapeutic-effect/feed/atom/" thr:count="4"/>
		<thr:total>4</thr:total>
	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[The Diabetes Blog - Marching towards a cure]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/on-the-diabetes-blog-marching-towards-a-cure/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/on-the-diabetes-blog-marching-towards-a-cure/</id>
		<updated>2005-05-23T05:19:45Z</updated>
		<published>2005-05-22T15:14:25Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Diabetes" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Health Network" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Web" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Everyday" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Simple Thoughts is an aggregation of several member blogs like The Diabetes Blog, The Java Software Blog etc.
Each of the blogs are unique in focus and content, except aggregation blogs like The Health Blog or The Technology Blog.
Today I will describe the idea and hope behind The Diabetes Blog. Millions of people worldwide suffer from [...]]]></summary>
		<link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/on-the-diabetes-blog-marching-towards-a-cure/#comments" thr:count="5"/>
		<link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/on-the-diabetes-blog-marching-towards-a-cure/feed/atom/" thr:count="5"/>
		<thr:total>5</thr:total>
	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Korean  Study Demonstrates Feasibility of Efficiently Harvesting Genetically Identical Stem Cells from Egg Donors]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/korean-study-demonstrates-feasibility-of-efficiently-harvesting-genetically-identical-stem-cells-from-egg-donors/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/korean-study-demonstrates-feasibility-of-efficiently-harvesting-genetically-identical-stem-cells-from-egg-donors/</id>
		<updated>2005-07-03T03:09:25Z</updated>
		<published>2005-05-20T20:00:29Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Diabetes" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Health Network" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Kidney" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Stem Cell Research" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Korean Scientists lead by Woo Suk Hwang and Shing Yong Moon of Seoul National University in Korea have successfully generated new lines of human embryonic stem cells that are exact genetic matches for individual patients, according to a new study.

The researchers derived stem cells from patients with spinal cord injury, a congenital immune disorder and [...]]]></summary>
		<link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/korean-study-demonstrates-feasibility-of-efficiently-harvesting-genetically-identical-stem-cells-from-egg-donors/#comments" thr:count="0"/>
		<link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/korean-study-demonstrates-feasibility-of-efficiently-harvesting-genetically-identical-stem-cells-from-egg-donors/feed/atom/" thr:count="0"/>
		<thr:total>0</thr:total>
	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Modified Liver Cells Keep Diabetes under Control]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/modified-liver-cells-keep-diabetes-under-control/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/modified-liver-cells-keep-diabetes-under-control/</id>
		<updated>2005-05-21T18:04:27Z</updated>
		<published>2005-05-20T03:32:37Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Diabetes" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Health Network" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Express" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Insulin" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Research by Endocrine institute in Israel provides the tantalizing possibility of curing diabetes by transplanting the patient's own cells. This will mean treatment without immunosuppression therapy.]]></summary>
		<link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/modified-liver-cells-keep-diabetes-under-control/#comments" thr:count="0"/>
		<link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/modified-liver-cells-keep-diabetes-under-control/feed/atom/" thr:count="0"/>
		<thr:total>0</thr:total>
	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Diovan (Blood Pressure Drug) Cuts Risk of Diabetes, Especially in High-Risk Group]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/diovan-blood-pressure-drug-cuts-risk-of-diabetes-especially-in-high-risk-group/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/diovan-blood-pressure-drug-cuts-risk-of-diabetes-especially-in-high-risk-group/</id>
		<updated>2005-05-21T18:01:29Z</updated>
		<published>2005-05-19T03:28:45Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Diabetes" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Headline News" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Health Network" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Valsartan, commercially known as Diovan, a drug that controls blood pressure and reduces heart risk, also appears to protect against diabetes, especially in high-risk people, according to new research presented at the American Society of Hypertension's Twentieth Annual Scientific Meeting and Exposition (ASH 2005) by a University of Michigan physician who helped lead the study.
The [...]]]></summary>
		<link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/diovan-blood-pressure-drug-cuts-risk-of-diabetes-especially-in-high-risk-group/#comments" thr:count="0"/>
		<link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/diovan-blood-pressure-drug-cuts-risk-of-diabetes-especially-in-high-risk-group/feed/atom/" thr:count="0"/>
		<thr:total>0</thr:total>
	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Blood Powered Fuel Cell paves way for artificial heart and embedded blood sugar monitor]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/blood-powered-fuel-cell-paves-way-for-artificial-heart-and-embedded-blood-sugar-monitor/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/blood-powered-fuel-cell-paves-way-for-artificial-heart-and-embedded-blood-sugar-monitor/</id>
		<updated>2005-05-16T12:19:03Z</updated>
		<published>2005-05-16T12:19:03Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Diabetes" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Health Network" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="Science" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="School" /><category scheme="http://blog.taragana.com" term="The group" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[A Japanese research team has developed a fuel cell that runs on blood without using toxic substances, opening the way for use in artificial hearts and other organs.
The biological fuel cell uses glucose, a sugar in blood, with a non-toxic substance used to draw electrons from glucose, said the team led by Matsuhiko Nishizawa, bio-engineering [...]]]></summary>
		<link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/blood-powered-fuel-cell-paves-way-for-artificial-heart-and-embedded-blood-sugar-monitor/#comments" thr:count="0"/>
		<link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/blood-powered-fuel-cell-paves-way-for-artificial-heart-and-embedded-blood-sugar-monitor/feed/atom/" thr:count="0"/>
		<thr:total>0</thr:total>
	</entry>
		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Angsuman Chakraborty</name>
						<uri>http://blog.taragana.com/</uri>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Research discovers response to beta-blocker therapy genetically pre-determined - must read if you are on beta-blocker therapy]]></title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/research-discovers-response-to-beta-blocker-therapy-genetically-pre-determined-must-read-if-you-are-on-beta-blocker-therapy/" />
		<id>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/research-discovers-response-to-beta-blocker-therapy-genetically-pre-determined-must-read-if-you-are-on-beta-blocker-therapy/</id>
		<updated>2005-05-12T02:28:08Z</updated>
		<published>2005-05-11T15:32:22Z</published>
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