| More US Adults Living With High Blood Pressure Two new national health studies show that more adults in the US are living with hypertension than ever before; while this is bad news in that the proportion of the population with high blood pressure has gone up, it is also good news in that more people are living with rather than dying from high blood pressure. The investigators also concluded that obesity is the main reason so many adult Americans have high blood pressure. medicalnewstoday.com |
Non Prescription Weight Loss Pill Gets European Go Ahead Drug company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has received the go ahead to market its non-prescription weight loss pill alli (orlistat) in Europe; the drug has already been on sale over the counter in the US for over year. News came in yesterday, Wednesday 21 January, that the European Medicines Agency (EMEA) has granted license to GSK to market its non-prescription weight loss pill alli (orlistat 60mg) in all 27 member countries of the European Union, plus Norway. medicalnewstoday.com |
ECO 2009 The 17th European Congress On Obesity Only about a week left before Europe's premier obesity conference Visit: http://www.easo.org/eco2009/press.htm for details of how to register to attend Wednesday 6 May to Saturday 9 May 2009 RAI Exhibition and Congress Centre, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (http://www.rai. medicalnewstoday.com |
Diabetes Gene Raises Odds Of Lower Birth Weight Pediatric researchers have found that a gene previously shown to be involved in the development of type 2 diabetes also predisposes children to having a lower birth weight. The finding sheds light on a possible genetic influence on how prenatal events may set the stage for developing diabetes in later childhood or adulthood. medicalnewstoday.com |
To Feel Better, Low-Fat Diet May Be Best (HealthDay) HealthDay - MONDAY, Nov. 9 (HealthDay News) -- Both a high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet such as the popular Atkins program and a low-fat, high-carb diet appear to help people lose pounds over the course of a year. us.rd.yahoo.com |