Access to existing medical treatments could save more lives than spending to improve the treatments
...mmercial interests of industry and by the public's appetite for technological breakthroughs, but health outcomes ultimately suffer." The authors discuss the relevance of this concept at a time when the nation is struggling with the escalating costs of health care and unsatisfactory performance on quality. "He...Nov/Dec 2005 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...kbuster earnings for industry) and by the public's appetite for technological breakthroughs. Ultimately, however, health outcomes suffer. They urge society to confront the price we pay - in human lives - by maintaining a health care system that is not designed to deliver care well while investing vast wealth...'Doctor Franklin's Medicine' explores founding father's vast medical legacy
... experiments He points out that it was Franklin's appetite for books and love of learning, and how he ran his successful printing business and wanted to improve life in the colonies, that led him into medicine. Like most Americans, Franklin was a pragmatist; he was clearly more interested in whether somethin...FSU study finds body image stereotypes may begin in the high chair
...arents may be buying into gender stereotypes about appetite and body size even with children as young as 36 months old. The studies, co-authored by FSU's Bright-Burton Professor of Psychology Thomas Joiner, graduate student Jill Holm-Denoma and post-doctoral student Ainhoa Otamendi, as well as colleagues from...Perinatal complications linked to eating disorders
... influence the nutritional status of the adult and appetite programming throughout life," the authors write. Angela Favaro, M.D., Ph.D., and colleagues at the University of Padua, Italy, completed an analysis of 114 females with anorexia nervosa, 73 with bulimia nervosa and a control group of 554 without eit...Losing weight by controlling flavor variety
...he said is well studied, but is well known only to appetite researchers--sensory specific satiety. "We stay hu...variety of foods. The result is an over-stimulated appetite center, too much eating and weight gain. Another problem, Katz said, is that the food industry appea...Study by Einstein researchers could lead to a novel strategy for treating obesity
... latest finding on the brain's role in controlling appetite and weight, researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine have shown that reducing levels of fatty acids in the hypothalamus causes rats to overeat and become obese. Their results suggest that restoring fatty-acid levels in the brain may be ...Researchers study multi-purpose drug
...erts its effect in parts of the brain that control appetite and addictive behaviors. Results of previous studies show that rimonabant reduces triglycerides and increases HDL-C, or "good" cholesterol, independent of weight loss. The new study, titled STADIVARIUS (Strategy to Reduce Atherosclerosis Development ...International Journal of Epidemiology obesity special
... of the foetus which, through permanent changes in appetite control, neuroendocrine functioning or energy meta...oking during pregnancy may be associated with poor appetite control in offspring. Just as adults who stop smoking can experience weight gain, babies who experi...UCSF research pinpoints brain molecule's role in developing addiction
...olecule in the brain essential for wakefulness and appetite has been found to play a central role in strengthening the neuron connections that lead to addiction. The discovery of how the neuropeptide orexin works at the molecular level makes it a strong new target for potential drugs to treat addiction, the r...Serotonin may play role in hardening of the arteries
... play an important role in the regulation of mood, appetite and blood pressure. Previous studies by Dr. Muldoon and colleagues have found that people who get little exercise, are overweight, have high blood pressure, blood sugar and cholesterol have low levels of serotonergic function. A number of research st...Lack of sleep linked to increased risk of high blood pressure
... deprivation has been shown previously to increase appetite and compromise insulin sensitivity. Short sleep duration was linked to a new diagnosis of high blood pressure among middle-aged participants, but the association was not observed among people age 60 or older, he said. Dr. Gangwisch said the differen...Lack of sleep linked to increased risk of high blood pressure
... deprivation has been shown previously to increase appetite and compromise insulin sensitivity. Short sleep duration was linked to a new diagnosis of high blood pressure among middle-aged participants, but the association was not observed among people age 60 or older, he said. Gangwisch said the differences ...Hap1 protein links circulating insulin to brain circuits that regulate feeding behavior in mice
...of the neural pathway used by hormones to regulate appetite and eating behavior could eventually provide new drug targets for treating eating disorders and obesity. The research, reported on-line April 9 in the journal Nature Medicine, will be published in the May 1 print edition. The hypothalamus serves as...New research links metabolism and appetite suppression, opening door to obesity treatments
... obesity research has focused on the regulation of appetite by hormones such as leptin. Research led by Dr. Greg Steinberg ─ a Target Obesity fellow funded by the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, and the Canadian Diabetes Association ─ demonstrates...American Academy of Neurology 58th Annual Meeting scientific highlights
...d levels of the hormone leptin, which affects both appetite and brain development. In a study of almost 3,000 healthy elderly followed over five years, those with the lowest leptin levels had a greater decline in their cognitive ability than those with the highest levels. Sex hormones may also play a role in...Hormone found to decrease appetite and increase activity
...f a hormone found in the gut could help reduce the appetite and increase activity in overweight and obese people. The study now being pre-published online in the International Journal of Obesity shows how the team from Imperial College London gave injections of oxyntomodulin to fifteen overweight but healthy...International Congress of Neuroendocrinology in Pittsburgh June 19-22
PITTSBURGH Sexual development and behavior, appetite regulation and obesity, response to stress, even the ability to get a good night's sleep are all determined by various hormones and their interactions with the brain. Indeed, the neuroendocrine system begins to hold sway when we are mere fetuses in ...Sleeping less linked to weight gain
...ys of sleep restriction, the hormones that control appetite cause people to become hungrier, so we thought tha...hey ate less," Dr. Patel said. "That suggests that appetite and diet are not accounting for the weight gain in women who sleep less." The researchers also asked...NRP104 significantly reduced symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children
...ts for NRP104 were insomnia (8 percent), decreased appetite (6 percent) and anorexia (4 percent); for MAS XR were decreased appetite (4 percent), upper abdominal pain (4 percent), insomnia (2 percent), and vomiting (2 percent)....