TOP 100 WEIGHT LOSS SITES
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| Patent Awarded To LSUHSC For Compound Inhibiting Cancer And Other Diseases Dr. Eugene Woltering, the James D. Rives Professor of Surgery and Neurosciences at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans School of Medicine, and Dr. Conrad Hornick, former LSUHSC Professor of Physiology, have been awarded a US Patent for a compound to inhibit the formation of blood vessels critical to the growth of cancerous tumors and diseases like diabetic retinopathy, obesity, and psoriasis. medicalnewstoday.com |
High Risk For Complications After Colectomy In Morbidly Obese Patients New research published in the January issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons shows that morbidly obese patients are at higher risk than normal weight patients for complications after colectomy - surgical removal of all or part of the colon - for the treatment of cancer. Obese patients are more likely than non-obese patients to develop and ultimately die from colon cancer, the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States. medicalnewstoday.com |
Parents Of Overweight Children Fail To Recognize Risk Factors Of Childhood Obesity, Unlv Study Finds A new study by UNLV nursing researchers revealed that most parents - especially those who are overweight - fail to accurately perceive their children's weight and risk factors for obesity and may be contributing to this growing childhood epidemic. With one in three U.S. children either at risk for or overweight, UNLV researchers investigated why an apparent disconnect exists between how parents perceive their children's weight and their actual weight. medicalnewstoday.com |
Are New Yorkers Too Obsessed With Being Thin? To the Editor:. nytimes.com |
US H1N1 Swine Flu Vaccine Supply On Track To Hit 10 Million Increase Says CDC Director H1N1 pandemic swine flu vaccine supplies are "on track to hit the 10 million increase" according to the Director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In a telephone conference on Tuesday, CDC Director Tom Frieden told the press that: "As of today there are 31.8 million doses of flu vaccine available." He said the US was now on track to hit the anticipated and hoped for 10 million increase for the current week. medicalnewstoday.com |