How to market diet pills: Prescription and over-the-counter pills may increase unhealthy behavior
... are positioned as effective as some kind of easy, magic solution. This product is up front in educating consumers that the road to long term weight loss goals requires hard work and a long term commitment. Its effectiveness is maximized in conjunction with other behaviors. Bolton cautiously adds howeve...How to lose weight and not go hungry: HU researcher develops drug that mimics feeling of 'fullness'
...ld over suffer today from obesity, yet there is no magic bullet that has yet provided a universally accepted solution. However, a young researcher at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem feels he has come up with a practical weight loss solution for the obese person without his having to feel hungry. For ...Reading Shakespeare has dramatic effect on human brain
...explains: "The effect on the brain is a bit like a magic trick; we know what the trick means but not how it happened. Instead of being confused by this in a negative sense, the brain is positively excited. The brain signature is relatively uneventful when we understand the meaning of a word but when the ...Fresh use of targeted therapy advances treatment of early HER2-positive breast cancer
...matic. What they found was almost the proverbial magic bullet. In one of four major national studies that examined early use of trastuzumab, they discovered that the drug could change the natural history of the disease. Trastuzumab cut cancer recurrence--the return of the disease by 52 percent, compared ...Planning guidebook to help make walking safer and more convenient
...hough it's not a prescription to cure obesity or a magic wand to make traffic congestion disappear, the new Georgia Guidebook for Pedestrian Planning does provide detailed directions for administering a healthy dose of help. The guidebook, developed by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology fo...Protein-added sports drinks don't boost performance during exercise, study finds
...y marketed protein-laced sports drinks as the next magic bullet, but Gibala's research disputes such claims. "Eating a little protein after exercise is important to help repair damaged muscles and promote training adaptations," says Gibala, "but no compelling evidence suggests that endurance athletes nee...M. D. Anderson: Setting the benchmark in brain tumor treatment
...ll surely be a bumpy one. "There will be no magic bullet to treat brain cancer," says Raymond Sawaya, M. D., professor and chair of the Department of Neurosurgery. "The answer is not going to come from one approach. We have to test and prefect many different avenues for treatment, and hit the right ...How should countries best respond to a flu pandemic?
...rch, said: "The modelling shows there is no single magic bullet which can control a flu pandemic, but that a combination of interventions could be highly effective at reducing transmission, potentially saving many lives." The research shows that border restrictions are unlikely to delay the spread of infl...Doctor proposes five steps we can take to help curb child obesity
...about "low-carb" and other fad diets, there are no magic bullets for treating childhood obesity. But the good news is that armed with the right information and recommendations, parents can reverse this dangerous trend and succeed in helping their children become fit, trim, and happy. Goutham Rao, M.D. (Pit...New strategy developed to study disease: Reveals insights into cancer and treatment leads
...d chronic myeloid leukemia, is the most successful magic bullet against cancer in many years and works by blocking tyrosine kinase activity," Cole says. As a next step, Cole and his colleagues plan to further examine the role of Src in cancer using their new model. They also plan to adapt the approach to...Mailman school researchers studying link between obesity and the urban environment
... all accumulate toward us getting fat. There is no magic bullet that will curb the rise in obesity. And that is why it's so hard to fight the epidemic. You don't have one target to hit, you have one thousand targets to strike to win."...MR spectroscopy may be superior for determining prostate cancer prognosis
...g a spectroscopic technique called high-resolution magic angle spinning that provides detailed analysis of a sample's components without destroying its cellular structure. The current study was designed to evaluate the technique's potential for providing information useful for clinical decision-making in p...ACP guidelines to treat obesity cover diet, exercise, drugs and surgery
...eat properly and exercise," says Snow. "There's no magic bullet." Bariatric Surgery ACP guidelines discuss several types of obesity (bariatric) surgical procedures and cautions that none have randomized, controlled trials comparing surgery with non-surgical control groups. Furthermore, all have possible ...