TOP 100 WEIGHT LOSS SITES
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| GSK Receives Positive Opinion For Alli(R) (orlistat 60 Mg) As A Non-prescription Weight Loss Aid In Europe Thursday 23 October 2008, London GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) announced today that alli (orlistat 60 mg) has received a positive opinion as a non-prescription product from the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP). This means the product will now be proposed for final approval by the European Commission and marketing authorisation could be granted in the coming months. medicalnewstoday.com |
Tackling Obesity Is A Long-Term Challenge - The King's Fund, UK Commenting on today's publication of the Health Profile of England 2008 by the Department of Health, The King's Fund's Research Fellow in public health Dr Tammy Boyce said: 'Tackling obesity is a long-term challenge and even effective local programmes will not deliver big improvements in national figures right away. The government and the NHS must continue to focus their efforts on supporting people to change their engrained bad behaviours and maintain healthier lifestyles. medicalnewstoday.com |
Proof Of The Cardiovascular Benefits Of Daily Exercise In School Children School children as young as 11 can benefit from a daily exercise programme in reducing their levels of several known risk factors for cardiovascular disease. An ongoing study, which began four years ago in the German city of Leipzig, shows already that children assigned to daily exercise lessons reduced their overall prevalence of obesity, improved their exercise capacity, increased their levels of HDL-cholesterol, and reduced their systolic blood pressure. medicalnewstoday.com |
Potassium cuts kidney stones in kids on "K" diet (Reuters) Reuters - Children on the high-fat ketogenic, or "K diet" to control epileptic seizures can prevent the painful kidney stones that the diet can sometimes cause if they take a daily supplement of potassium citrate the day they start the diet, doctors have found. us.rd.yahoo.com |
In Fibroid Surgery Patient's Weight Not Linked To Success Obese patients are no more likely to have post-operative complications than those of average weight when undergoing robotic surgery to remove uterine fibroids, according to a study at Henry Ford Hospital. Myomectomy is a procedure that removes uterine fibroids, leaving the uterus intact and preserving the ability for future pregnancies. medicalnewstoday.com |