Key to breast cancer prevention could hang in the balance
...le answers, or to respond based on their desire to lose weight and improve their eating habits." Extrapolation of the results for Westerners, Malin noted, should take into account the inherent differences in the relationship between BMI levels and disease risk that appear to exist between Western and Asia...Medication orlistat appears helpful in improving weight management for obese adolescents
...ture a chronic disease. Many obese individuals who lose weight regain it over time, often exceeding their original weight," Dr. Joffe writes. "What will be critical to determine is whether the weight loss (or slowing of weight gain) achieved by those treated with orlistat is sustainable over time. Once ad...Only transplant center that developed comprehensive protocol for liver transplants in kids with MSUD
...ss of their child, I knew then I could not bear to lose Jakob. I could not watch him suffer brain damage because he accidentally ate one too many french fries, or because he got a little cold," said Susan Jasin, Jakob's mother. "We knew transplant surgery had risks, but the alternative was a life that cou...Researchers shed new light on cause of bedsores and other chronic wounds
...e study. As skin cells move upwards, they normally lose their nuclei and form sturdy layers of cross-linked proteins, creating a protective layer over the wound. But in chronic wounds, the researchers found, skin cells are unable to progress to this stage of differentiation, and their nuclei remain presen...New food allergy research consortium focuses on peanut allergy
...eloping peanut allergy, but the vast majority will lose their allergies to those foods as they grow up. The study will follow the children for at least five years and study immunologic changes that accompany the loss of allergy to foods and the development of allergy to new foods. This study will be led b...Intention to lose weight and mortality
When overweight people intentionally lose weight they may not necessarily be improving their...ns who had been questioned in 1977 on intention to lose weight and then followed up for 18 years. Excluding those who had illnesses, they found that in the ...Weight-loss surgery produces unexpected drop in heart disease risk, Stanford researchers find
... most obese people, the most compelling reasons to lose weight have to do with improvements in lifestyle, the health benefits are tremendous, Williams said. He expects that the new study will encourage physicians to discuss the surgery with obese patients who are at risk of heart disease. And he hopes tha...USC researchers link cellular stress to drug resistance in tumors
...ook at the successful cancer therapies, they often lose efficacy over time because of resistance in the tumor cells," notes Amy S. Lee, Ph.D., professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at the Keck School of Medicine, associate director of basic sciences at the USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center,...Dieting linked to increased wealth, study finds
COLUMBUS , Ohio Overweight Americans who lose a lot of weight also tend to build more wealth as ... emphasized that participants in this study had to lose quite a bit of weight to show strong improvements in wealth. For example, when a typical young perso...Obese men more carb intolerant than obese women
...providers should encourage their obese patients to lose weight and assist them in doing so in a healthful manner," said Paul A. Kvale, MD, FCCP, President of the American College of Chest Physicians....Despite conflicting studies on obesity, most Americans think the problem remains serious
...icans who report that they are seriously trying to lose weight from 27% in 2004 to 32% in 2005. This includes more than half (54%) of people who consider themselves to be overweight. Obesity and Mortality A number of issues were raised by recent studies about obesity including whether more Americans di...Quitting smoking could save your teeth, study shows
Smokers who give up are much less likely to lose their teeth prematurely than those who don't kick the habit, pioneering research has shown. Dental researchers at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, observed a group of cigarette smokers with chronic gum disease over one year and found some s...Regular yoga practice may help prevent middle-age spread
...rous yoga practice you can burn enough calories to lose weight, but most people don't practice that kind o... to a standard weight-loss program can help people lose more weight or keep it off longer. The other message, particularly to people who might be overweight...Scientists studying ways to help community college employees lose weight and keep it off
...can be improved to support those who are trying to lose weight, the scientist said. Access to healthier foods, special promotions and labeling of health foods should support employees who are trying to shed excess pounds. "In North Carolina, obesity accounts for more than $2 billion annually in increased ...Tsunami raises questions about disaster mental health, Science reports
...m to have symptoms of depression-they can't sleep, lose their appetite and their interest in things they usually enjoy. In a village near Cuddalore, India, I went around with psychiatric social workers from an NGO based in Chennai. We visited several people who have become very withdrawn since the tsunami...Key strategy to limit managed care drug costs failing, survey shows
...drug budget set by the insurance company, and will lose money if member doctors over-prescribe. The underlying assumption is that placing doctors at financial risk for their drug prescribing practices will lead them to adopt new practices to control drug costs, the authors explain. These practices includ...Prevent prostate cancer with antioxidants? Gene pathway may reveal more clues
...uppressor gene Nkx3.1 malfunctions, prostate cells lose the ability to protect themselves from oxygen damage. Results of the new studies are in the August issue of the journal Cancer Research. "Normally, cells with functioning Nkx3.1 seem to process oxidative free radicals appropriately," sa...Adult sickle cell drug proves effective in young children
...t finding as many children with sickle cell anemia lose spleen function by two years of age. Participants also experienced significantly fewer incidents of acute chest syndrome, a potentially life-threatening disorder associated with sickle cell disease. During the study, one four-year-old girl died of se...Study shows Hurricane Katrina affected 20,000 physicians, up to 6,000 may have been displaced
... said that not only did many practicing physicians lose their practices and income, but practically all of the health records were destroyed in the community health centers within the poorer neighborhoods of New Orleans. "Reconstructing those records is really going to be extra difficult," he said. Ricket...Loss of body mass linked to development of Alzheimer's disease
...IA. "People with Alzheimer's disease are known to lose weight and body mass after they have the disease," says Dallas W. Anderson, Ph.D., program director for population studies in the Dementias of Aging Branch of NIA's Neuroscience and Neuropsychology of Aging Program. "This study is significant in that...