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TUESDAY, Nov. 10 (HealthDay News) -- While there are plenty of good reasons to avoid obesity in your teens, a new study now suggests that extra weight in adolescence may increase your risk of multiple sclerosis (MS) later.
LOS ANGELES----In today’s landmark hearings called by State Senators Alex Padilla and Elaine Kontominas Alquist , representatives from the soda industry failed to acquit themselves of a growing body of research implicating sugar-sweetened beverages as the leading culprit in the obesity epidemic.
(ARA) - Our pets tend to eat the same way we do, which means - unfortunately - more cats and dogs suffer from unbalanced diets, obesity, food allergies and other health problems related to nutrition.
VANCOUVER, BC--(Marketwire - November 5, 2009) - Sirona Biochem Corp. ( TSX-V : SBM ), an emerging biotech company focused on drug development for diabetes and obesity, announced today the second major appointment this week to its Scientific Advisory Board, Professor Denis Richard, one of Canada's leading obesity scientists. Sirona Biochem CEO Dr. Howard Verrico said, "Professor Richard's work ...
A study in California shows that about a quarter of the people hospitalized for H1N1 complications were morbidly obese, even though less than 5% of the population falls into that category. Obesity appears to be a risk factor on a par with pregnancy for developing complications from an infection with pandemic H1N1 influenza, according to the most comprehensive look yet at swine flu ...
More than 100,000 cases of cancer each year are caused by excess body fat, according to a report released Thursday in Washington.
Two out of three adults in the Finger Lakes region are overweight or obese.
Editor, This is in response to the Victor Murthy column published on Tuesday: I agree with you that obesity and weight-related conditions are a current and future problem here at UNM, but I felt your column attacks the people who are overweight, and not the issue of obesity and weight-related issues directly.
There's a lot of crossover between so-called obesity drugs and diabetes treatments. Amylin has both of them covered.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 (UPI) -- Excess body fat causes an estimated 100,500 U.S. cancer cases every year, an analysis by a large U.S. cancer research organization indicated Thursday.
In Health Watch: New research is drawing a possible link between H1N1 and obesity.Elizabeth Sanchez reports from Los Angeles... where a study found many of those hospitalized with severe swine flu are overweight.New research finds that obese people may be at higher risk for complications from H1N1.A new study of swine flu hospitalizations and deaths in California found that of 268 adults more ...
WASHINGTON — It's tough enough selling military service to teen-agers who might not be so keen on getting their heads shaved or buy the whole "we do more by 9 a.
There’s new information tonight that suggests there could be a link to H1N1 and obesity. A lot of people hospitalized with the virus happen to be extremely overweight.. It raises questions about whether overweight people should be added to the priority list for the vaccine.
An MSU professor and a team of researchers from several U.S. institutions received national recognition last month for their research on maternal obesity and its impact on successful pregnancies.
Researchers Present Data Linking Obesity/Overweight to Higher Cancer Risk, Poorer Cancer Survival
As many as 100,000 cases of cancer could be prevented in the U.S. each year if Americans get rid of their excess body fat, a report by the American Institute for Cancer Research suggests.
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