March 28, 2012

There’s more evidence that gastric bypass surgery can cure Type-2 diabetes. Two new studies show that the surgery designed to help the obese lose weight can be more effective at stopping the disease than a regimen of drugs. Doctors have known that weight loss surgery can have the side-effect of ending Type-2 diabetes. Source Link

The days of fighting with your teenager about constantly talking on the phone are all but over. A new report says the average teen sends 60 text messages a day, but only makes five phone calls, and teenaged girls send twice as many text messages as do boys. And the tech tool that today’s teens don’t use much? Only about one out of 20 send emails to their friends. Source Link

Could dogs have a nose for diagnosing of one of the world’s top killers? Studies have shown that dogs can identify the smell of lung cancer from a breath sample of a cancer patient. Once scientists can identify the chemical marker that makes dogs recognize the scent, it could pave the way for a cancer breathalyzer testing device. Source Link