While commenting on the forecasted $60-million aid for a new family health centre in Orleans, the chairman of the Champlain Local Health Integration Network (LHIN), Dr. William Keon, has marked it as most exciting project of his career.

According to a study presented at the annual scientific session meeting American Diabetes Association in New Orleans, US researchers have come across predictable early risk signs of Type 2 diabetes in very young children.

According to a study presented at the American Diabetes Association conference in New Orleans on Sunday, Novo Nordisk A/S's experimental diabetes medicine, liraglutide, scored high over rival products, in terms of bringing about weight loss and controlled blood-sugar levels in diabetics after a two-year treatment period.

According to a new study, sponsored by the National Institutes of Health and several pharmaceutical companies, drugs should be the first line of treatment for those diabetes' patients who also suffer from heart disease; and angioplasty or bypass surgery be added only in the severest of cases.

Obesity might be viewed as one of the leading causes for heart problems, but latest studies have revealed that obese heart patients have better chances of surviving strokes and heart attacks than their lean counterparts.

The studies show that obese heart patients live longer than lean patients and respond better to treatment.

Eight people lost their lives and one was injured when a helicopter transporting oilfield workers to a job site crashed in a marshy area of Southeast Louisiana wilderness, Coast Guard officials informed.

A star studded line-up featuring Aretha Franklin, Dave Matthews Band, Wilco, James Taylor, Wynton Marsalis, Kings Of Leon, Tony Bennett, the Neville Brothers and Sugarland will be present to celebrate The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival 40th anniversary during the spring.