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Plastic surgeons warn of malnutrition in body contouring patients

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 13, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Identifying malnutrition before surgery in massive weight loss patients seeking body contouring will significantly decrease surgical complications, accelerate wound healing, improve scar quality and boost patient energy levels, ...





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Some obese people perceive body size as OK, dismiss need to lose weight

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Some obese people misperceive that their body size is normal and think they don't need to lose weight, according to research presented at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2009.


Implant-based cancer vaccine is first to eliminate tumors in mice

Implant-based cancer vaccine is first to eliminate tumors in mice

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (31) | comments 8

(PhysOrg.com) -- A cancer vaccine carried into the body on a carefully engineered, fingernail-sized implant is the first to successfully eliminate tumors in mammals, scientists report this week in the journal ...


Chubby hubby is common, but ethnicity matters

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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study helps untangle how marriage, gender and ethnicity are related to body weight. The study of almost 8,000 men and women will be published in the journal Obesity.


A second skin

A second skin

Biology / Biotechnology

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Despite advances in treatment regimens and the best efforts of nurses and doctors, about 70% of all people with severe burns die from related infections. But a revolutionary new wound dressing developed at ...


Playing sport up to the end of pregnancy is healthy for the baby and the mother

Playing sport up to the end of pregnancy is healthy for the baby and the mother

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Contrary to more conservative customs, exercising up to the end of pregnancy has no harmful effect on the weight or size of the foetus. This is what has been indicated in a study carried out by researchers ...


For fish, bigger doesn’t always mean healthier

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Female smallmouth bass tend to prefer bigger male mates, but bigger doesn’t necessarily mean healthier. That’s the finding of a new study in the latest issue of Physiological and Biochemical Zoology that i ...


Patient's weight not linked to success of fibroid surgery

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Obese patients are no more likely to have post-operative complications than those of average weight when undergoing robotic surgery to remove uterine fibroids, according to a study at Henry Ford Hospital.


Students with a lower socioeconomic background benefit from daily school physical activity

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created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

German school students -- especially those with low socioeconomic status (SES) -- significantly improved their exercise capacity and body leanness after a year of daily physical activity classes, according to research presented ...


Overweight children may develop back pain and spinal abnormalities

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Being overweight as a child could lead to early degeneration in the spine, according to a study presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).


A RANK insider resolving the enigma of the fever chart

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Mammals have evolved a complex system for controlling bone remodeling. Babies require calcium for healthy bones and they obtain it from their mother's milk. Nursing mothers release calcium from their bones. Surprisingly, ...



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