50 million diabetes cases projected this year: Azad

NEW DELHI - India is projected to have 50.7 million diabetes patients in 2010, Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said Tuesday and informed that the centre has lined up a Rs.500 crore plan to control non-communicable diseases like diabetes and stroke.

Gene that ties stress to obesity and diabetes identified

WASHINGTON - Scientists have discovered a gene that ties stress to obesity and diabetes.

Dr. Alon Chen of the Weizmann Institute’s Neurobiology Department and his research team have now discovered that changes in the activity of a single gene in the brain not only cause mice to exhibit anxious behavior, but also lead to metabolic changes that cause the mice to develop symptoms associated with type 2 diabetes.