A lot of people hate going to the doctor's (that includes me). Not because doctors are particularly unfriendly. It's the needles. This bit of news would make a lot of people feel better about going to the doctor's though: imagine that instead of having to deal with needles for blood tests, all you have to do is spit? It may not be that long from now. Read more in the full article.

Taking the elevator might save you time, but not your life as it could lead to the probability of developing chronic diseases. This was the latest finding according to two studies done by the University of Missouri and the University of Copenhagen. Learn more about the studies in the full article.

Granted, lack of sleep will prove detrimental to anyone, but a recent study conducted by Edward Suarez at Duke University Medical Center seems to suggest that women get the short end of the stick when it comes to getting inadequate rest. More details follow after the jump.

For those who are trying to get healthier using a refined carb diet (breakfast cereals, white bread, etc.), you may want to read the full details of a study conducted by researchers from the University of Sydney.

According to them, such diet plan can lead to lifestyle diseases such as cancer and diabetes. Know more about this after the jump!

Watching TV and video games have been the bane of parents of overweight children. Using a device that restricted video-watching time of children, researchers from the University at Buffalo have been able to find out that they were able to reduce the body-mass index significantly of children. Find out more after the jump!

Both the medical and scientific community, from time to time, had relied on nature to provide us with cures for some of the more serious human diseases.

Like this time, a study has found that a substance on the paradoxical frog's skin is capable of curing Type 2 diabetes patients. Know more after the jump!

Pancreas donors are the one of the biggest things in the UK nowadays. Organ donors are in high demand to help facilitate a new technique developed to aid diabetes patients all over the country. While there are other alternative methods which may suppress the more serious complications of diabetes, many scientists are hopeful that this procedure will somehow lead to its eventual cure someday. For more information, check out the full article.

Researchers from the University of Chicago conducted a study regarding the relationship of sleep deprivation and glucose levels. With nine healthy young adults as volunteers, the researchers were able to find out the lack of sleep can increase the chances of developing type 2 diabetes.

Want to know more about their research? Click on the "read more" link.

Dr. George Daley of Harvard Medical School and his colleagues have found a way to turn ordinary skin cells to embryonic stem cells. They found four genes that can direct skin cells to form any kind of tissue.

This allows scientists to find cures for injuries, Parkinson's and Diabetes. More information on their findings after the Jump!

New findings have revealed that the memory-losing disease, Alzheimer's, is actually a form of diabetes. Northwestern University scientists have discovered that the toxic protein "amyloid ß-derived diffusible ligand" - or ADDL - takes away the insulin receptors from the nerve cells, thereby making them insulin resistant.

Hampering insulin and its receptors to the brain results to memory loss as the two are key components in memory formation. Now having determined that Alzheimer's may be caused in part by this insulin resistance, thanks to the attack of ADDL, the next question to confront then would be how this attack is triggered.

Weinberg College's William L. Klein, leader of the research, explains:

We think this is a major factor in the memory deficiencies caused by ADDLs in Alzheimer's brains. We're dealing with a fundamental new connection between two fields, diabetes and Alzheimer's disease, and the implication is for therapeutics. We want to find ways to make those insulin receptors themselves resistant to the impact of ADDLs. And that might not be so difficult.

The discovery is published online by the FASEB Journal.