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If Americans continue to pack on pounds, obesity will cost the United States about $344 billion in annual medical-related expenses by 2018, eating up about 21 percent of health-care spending, says the first analysis to estimate the future medical costs of obesity.
Ndukwe tells students to get off the couch.
Researchers find link between obesity and Multiple Sclerosis Two years ago, 39 year old Charlene Pinkerton was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. She says it all started more than nine years ago when she started having dizzy spells.
Even controlling for income, education, obesity, smoking, and some diseases, Black infant mortality is significantly higher. This presumably indicates worse healthcare.
With obesity rates climbing in the US, there's important information that might affect you.
The immune systems of HIV patients who are obese don't respond to antiretroviral therapy as well as do those of people of normal weight.
A new CDC survey breaks down obesity rates by county for the first time, and the new research shows South Carolina's rates are among the highest in the nation.
A breakthrough paper published in Nature in December 2006 reported that microbial populations in the gut are different between obese and lean people, and that when the obese people lost weight their microflora reverted back to that observed in a lean person, suggesting that obesity may have a microbial component.
HATTIESBURG,MS-(WDAM-TV) Mississippi has maintained the title "the fattest state" for quite some time. Obesity is literally expanding out of control. There are several important question people can ask themselves to help them live a longer and healthier life.
Two new studies suggest a correlation between obesity and Medicare costs. Is it worth paying people to lose weight?
One out of five type 2 diabetics is morbidly obese -- approximately 100 pounds or more overweight -- a new study has found.
Gaining weight is a problem for many, if not most of us, around Thanksgiving, but, for increasing numbers of Americans, obesity is a year-round problem with major health implications. Obesity is not just caused by eating too much and watching too much TV, said researchers and doctors at the recent Regis College Leadership Series on Health. There are many environmental factors that are sometimes ...
Orexigen® Therapeutics, Inc. , a biopharmaceutical company focused on the treatment of obesity, today announced that on November 18, 2009 the Compensation Committee of the Company's Board of Directors granted an inducement stock option to purchase 200,000 shares of common stock to Preston Klassen, M.D., its newly appointed Head of the Global Contrave Program.
Perhaps you're working extra hard these days to hang onto your job, or if you're looking for work, you're using every avenue you know to find a job. In either case, better check out your waistline if you're serious about having a job in the future.
DECATUR - With unhealthy messages and habits inundatingchildren's lives from all directions and helping raise rates ofchildhood obesity and type 2 diabetes, a local group is fostering amore health-conscious community.
ATLANTA - The first county-by-county survey of obesity says that Bell County ranks third in Texas in the rate of incidence of diabetes among adults. The survey also reflects past studies that show the rate of obesity is highest in the Southeast and Appalachia.
