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New promising obesity drug may have huge potential

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Oct 23, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

According to trials, a new obesity drug, Tesofensine, which may be launched on the world market in a few years, can produce weight loss twice that of currently approved obesity drugs. The Danish company Neurosearch and a ...





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Rise in weight-loss drugs prescribed to combat childhood obesity

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Sep 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Thousands of children and adolescents are using anti-obesity drugs that in the UK are only licensed for use by adults. The number of young people receiving prescriptions for these drugs has increased 15-fold since 1999, but ...


GPs 'could do more' to help obese avoid surgery

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 17, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Surgery to treat obesity could be avoided if GPs and healthcare trusts put more time and money into early stage weight management programmes, a senior clinical researcher will say today.


Role of addiction cannot be ignored in obesity epidemic

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The causes of obesity are complex and individual, but it is clear that chronic overeating plays a fundamental role. But when this behaviour becomes compulsive and out of control, it is often classified as "food addiction" ...


Size does matter: Researchers adapt drug dosing to body size

Medicine & Health / Research

created Mar 10, 2008 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

University of Queensland researchers are leading the charge in adapting drug dosing to a society that is changing shape.


Nearly 10 percent of health spending for obesity

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jul 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(AP) -- Obesity's not just dangerous, it's expensive. New research shows medical spending averages $1,400 more a year for an obese person than for someone who's normal weight. Overall obesity-related health spending reaches ...


Discovery of new gene called Brd2 that regulates obesity and diabetes

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The chance discovery of a genetic mutation that makes mice enormously fat but protects them from diabetes has given researchers at Boston University School of Medicine, USA, new insights into the cellular mechanisms that ...


Obesity hinders chemotherapy treatment in children with leukemia

Obesity hinders chemotherapy treatment in children with leukemia

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Sep 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Obesity is an important factor contributing to chemotherapy resistance and increasing relapse rates among children with leukemia, according to recent findings published online first in Cancer Research, a jour ...


Scientists map molecular regulation of fat-cell genetics

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 04, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A research team led by Mitchell Lazar, MD, PhD, Director of the Institute for Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, has used state-of-the-art genetic technology to map thousands ...


New gene discovery links obesity to the brain

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Jun 26, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A variation in a gene that is active in the central nervous system is associated with increased risk for obesity, according to an international study in which Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University played ...


Study shows how fatty foods curb hunger

Biology /

created Oct 07, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (10) | comments 1

Fatty foods may not be the healthiest diet choice, but those rich in unsaturated fats – such as avocados, nuts and olive oil – have been found to play a pivotal role in sending this important message to your brain: stop eating, ...



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