TOP 100 WEIGHT LOSS SITES
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| GI Dynamics Announces Promising Multi-Center Safety And Efficacy Data Of EndoBarrier™ Gastrointestinal Liner For Pre-Surgical Weight Loss GI Dynamics, a medical device company pioneering the development of new approaches to treat obesity and metabolic disorders, today announced new data regarding the EndoBarrier™, its novel, noninvasive device currently in clinical trials to treat obesity and type 2 diabetes. New data from a multi-center, randomized clinical trial indicate that the EndoBarrier is a safe, noninvasive device with excellent short-term weight loss results in morbidly obese patients. medicalnewstoday.com |
Studies Look At High Blood Pressure Control Among Blacks, Weight-Loss Methods The following summarizes studies published in the January issue of the Journal of the National Medical Association."A Proposed New Model of Hypertensive Treatment Behavior in African-Americans" (.pdf): In the report, Jennifer Middleton, assistant medical director of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's medicalnewstoday.com |
News From The American Chemical Society , April 8, 2009 Solving the mystery of what puts sperm "in the mood" In a potential advance toward a male contraceptive pill and new treatments for infertility, researchers are reporting the identification of key biochemical changes that put sperm "in the mood" for fertilization. Their study, which addresses a long-standing biological mystery, appears in ACS' Journal of Proteome Research, a monthly publication. medicalnewstoday.com |
New Obesity Data Shows Blacks Have The Highest Rates Of Obesity Blacks had 51 percent higher prevalence of obesity, and Hispanics had 21 percent higher obesity prevalence compared with whites, according to researchers with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Greater prevalences of obesity for blacks and whites were found in the South and Midwest than in the West and Northeast. Hispanics in the Northeast had lower obesity prevalence than Hispanics in the Midwest, South or West. medicalnewstoday.com |
Use Of Antipsychotic Medications By Children And Adolescents Associated With Significant Weight Gain Many pediatric and adolescent patients who received second-generation antipsychotic medications experienced significant weight gain, along with varied adverse effects on cholesterol and triglyceride levels and other metabolic measures, according to a study in the October 28 issue of JAMA. medicalnewstoday.com |