- SATURDAY, June 7 (HealthDay News) — People with type 2 diabetes
can help control the disease by taking better care of their teeth and
gums.

That's the case dentists were expected to make at the American Diabetes
Association's annual meeting in San Francisco this weekend.

“Several recent studies have shown that having periodontal disease
makes those with type 2 [...]

- Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments,
compiled by editors of HealthDay:

Aggressive Blood Sugar Reduction in Diabetics
Shows No Benefit, Study Confirms

Mirroring an American study done earlier this year, Australian
researchers have found that aggressive treatment of patients with diabetes
doesn't reduce the number of heart problems or deaths any more than
standard diabetes [...]

Workers slaughter live poultry at a market in Hong Kong, Saturday, June 7, 2008. Hong Kong health officials are destroying 2,700 live poultry in the marketplace Saturday after chickens there were found to be carrying the dangerous H5N1 bird flu virus strain, officials said. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

HONG KONG - Hong Kong health workers [...]

Officers from the Health and Environmental Hygiene Department cull 2,700 birds in a market after it was declared an infected area in Hong Kong June 7, 2008. The government has ordered an immediate ban on all poultry imports from the mainland, after the H5N1 virus was found in samples collected from poultry stalls at the [...]

A Manila hospital has closed its neonatal intensive care unit and an investigation ordered after 25 babies died of a blood infection, it was reported(AFP/Jay Directo)

MANILA (AFP) -
A Manila hospital has closed its neonatal intensive care unit and an investigation ordered after 25 babies died of a blood infection, it was reported Saturday.
Local authorities ordered [...]

BEIJING (Reuters) -
China's students should exercise their
eyes twice a day to ward off nearsightedness that has reached
near-epidemic proportions because of their long hours spent
hitting the books, the education ministry has urged.
The latest statistics showed how students' eyesight
markedly degenerates as they forge their way through China's
hyper-competitive education system, squinting at Chinese
characters and scientific formulas in often [...]

Die Angst vor Pestizidrückständen in Obst- und Gemüseschalen halten Experten der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Ernährung (DGE) für unbegründet. Der gesundheitliche Nutzen der Vitamine, Spurenelemente und Ballaststoffe aus den Schalen überwiege mögliche Risiken bei weitem.
Die erlaubten Höchstmengen an Pestizid-Rückständen seien so niedrig, dass keine Gesundheitsgefährdung zu erwarten sei. Außerdem lassen sich eventuelle Pestizidreste durch gründliches Waschen [...]

STRASBOURG (Reuters) - Une dizaine de militants d’Act up ont manifesté samedi devant la Cour européenne des droits de l’homme (CEDH) à Strasbourg pour protester contre un arrêt de cette juridiction autorisant la Grande-Bretagne à expulser une malade du sida vers son pays d’origine, l’Ouganda.
Les manifestants venus de Paris ont déployé devant les grilles une [...]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -
Becoming overweight or obese may not
be so bad for people who are battling type 1 diabetes, the less
common form of the disease, researchers said on Friday.
People who put on weight over time were less likely to die
than others studied, and those classified as underweight were
at the greatest risk for death, according to the [...]

NEW YORK - Aggressively treating diabetes doesn’t prevent heart problems and deaths any better than standard treatment for lowering blood sugar, Australian researchers reported Friday.
It’s the second large study, involving thousands of patients, to show no heart benefit from drastically lowering diabetics’ blood sugar levels. Experts said doctors should stick to the recommended target levels.
Heart [...]