USP seeks volunteers with type 2 diabetes for new treatment

Researchers are looking for men and women between the ages of 30 and 60, who have type 2 diabetes, do not use insulin, and are metabolically uncontrolled (cholesterol and triglycerides above 200 mg / dL).

The new treatment is able to control diabetes through a custom rigid diet. According to researcher Rafael Ferraz, who coordinates the study alongside Professor Maria Cristina Foss-Freitas, the research created a food protocol capable of reducing calorie intake to a level that activates energy metabolism without causing malnutrition. treatment, the researchers had to find a mathematical formula and turn it into food, into macronutrients ideal for each patient and reverse diabetes. Preliminary data from the study showed that the method was able to control diabetes and dyslipidemia, as well as reduce pressure levels at healthy rates.

The treatment lasts for 27 days and is carried out at Hospital das Clínicas at FMRP / USP in Ribeirão . There are 33 vacancies available for volunteers. Interested parties should contact the Faculty of Medicine at

[email protected]

.

In addition, participants should submit updated glucose, cholesterol, and triglyceride results to confirm if the patients meet the inclusion criteria of the research protocol. During the research, physicians performed several biochemical, clinical, and molecular tests and observed real-time improvement of the volunteers' body.

Breast cancer has a cure?

All breast cancer is treatable but not all are curable. Depending on the stage at which the tumor was diagnosed (what we call staging), the doctor will use different strategies to better treat the patient. Depending on staging, the focus of cancer treatment may be curative or palliative. Treatment for curative purposes: applies when tumors are located in the breast and even with axillary metastasis (regional metastasis), but not have reached other organs (systemic metastasis).

(Health)

Indian children died of eating lychee on an empty stomach, researchers say.

For two decades, in the period from May to July, apparently healthy children in India were killed by litchi on an empty stomach. region of Bihar, India, suffered seizures and loss of consciousness. About 40% of them ended up dying. For this reason, American and Indian scientists decided to research what was causing the deaths.

With very low glucose in the Some children, especially the youngest ones, developed sudden and serious problems in their brains, encephalopathy, and eventually died. The deaths occurred right at the time of the lychee harvest. Health officials then warned parents to make sure children are getting a meal at night and limit the number of litter they consume.

(Health)