Living Well to Keep Your Pressure Down

SHIPing news: a new way to keep your weight down.

Almost always, obesity is an obligate prerequisite for the development of type 2 diabetes mellitus. Loss of a well-known lipid phosphatase appears to prevent insulin-resistant diabetes in mice by removal of a positive regulator of adiposity.

FGF19: How gut talks to brain to keep your sugar down☆

The homeostatic systems regulating energy and glucose metabolism perform a complex balancing act of meeting short term requirements for increased energy whilst maintaining long term energy stores. Multiple signals are involved in this process, from the gastrointestinal tract, pancreas and adipose tissue, which in turn also modulate CNS pathways to control appetite and glucose metabolism. The ef...

Keep your distance ?

Remote interpreting, whereby the interpreter is physically separated from those who need the interpretation, has been investigated in relation to conference and healthcare settings. By contrast, very little is known about remote interpreting in legal proceedings, where this method of interpreting is increasingly used to optimise interpreters‟ availability. This paper reports the findings of an ...

How to Keep Your Top Talent

How to keep your heart healthy.

Bonnie Brown, 50, of Baltimore, says she also didn't change her life until she had a heart attack in 1997. "I used to smoke, ate cold-cut subs for breakfast, and had lots of fried foods, all the time, any time," Brown says. But her heart attack--which she initially mistook for a bad case of indigestion--led her to give up cigarettes, improve her diet, and sign up for weekly water aerobics and l...