A study of 16 patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) and 16 normal individuals shows that only one of the 16 T1DM patients, as compared to ten healthy control participants, awakened upon hypoglycemia.Bernd Schultes and colleagues from the University of Lubeck induced hypoglycemia with insulin under controlled conditions and then assessed sleep with polysomography. [click link for full article]

Already recognized as a source of healthful anti-inflammatory and antioxidant compounds, coffee also contains significantly higher levels of soluble dietary fiber than other commonly consumed beverages, scientists in Spain report. Their study is scheduled for publication in the March 21 issue of ACS' Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, a biweekly journal.Fulgencio Saura-Calixto and M. [click link for full article]

Cairo is a ruralized metropolis where people live by their wits and devices, cut off from the authorities, the law and often each other.

Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs may give some protection against esophageal adenocarcinoma developing from its premalignant state, Barrett's esophagus.Genetic abnormalities are common in many human cancers and their precursors, including esophageal adenocarcinoma and Barrett's esophagus. [click link for full article]

Breast cancer treatment trials supported by the pharmaceutical industry are more likely to report positive results than non-sponsored studies, according to a study to be published in the April 1, 2007 issue of CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society. [click link for full article]

The vote to renew Prime Minister Romano Prodi?s fragile government ended Italy?s political crisis, for the moment.

Although it is "easy to hoot with derision" at the "awfully complicated positions" on abortion rights taken by former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani (R) and former Massachusetts Gov. [click link for full article]

Physicians caring for children with cancer should be on the lookout for signs of bone fragility caused by disease and treatment, according to a new report. [click link for full article]

BAGHDAD, Feb. 28 -- A community leader in the western Iraqi city of Ramadi provided additional information Wednesday about a deadly car bombing earlier this week that U.S. officials said did not occur.

The U.S. accused North Korea in 2002 of pursuing parallel paths to a nuclear bomb, using plutonium and uranium. Now, U.S. officials are admitting doubts on the uranium enrichment program.