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Antibiotic Use Linked to Type 2 Diabetes Diagnosis

By Aaron Lohr/Jenni Glenn Gingery | Endocrine Society on Aug 28, 2015 Health

Washington, DC – People who developed Type 2 diabetes tended to take more antibiotics in the years leading up to the diagnosis than people who did not have the condition, according to a new study published in the Endocrine Society’s Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. A person develops diabetes, which is characterized by high […]

Scientists Find Unprecedented Microbial Diversity in Isolated Amazonian Tribe

By Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai on Apr 20, 2015 Featured, Science/Education

Scientists from the Icahn School of Medicine, collaborating with a multicenter team of U.S. and Venezuelan researchers, have discovered the most diverse collection of bacteria yet in humans among an isolated tribe of Yanomami Amerindians in the remote Amazonian jungles of Venezuela. Bacterial diversity in the Yanomami, previously unexposed to antibiotics or industrialized diets, was […]