TOP 100 WEIGHT LOSS SITES
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| Genaera Corporation Reports Phase 1 Data For Trodusquemine (MSI-1436) At The North American Association For The Study Of Obesity Annual Meeting Genaera Corporation (Nasdaq: GENR) reported data from its second Phase 1 clinical trial of trodusquemine (MSI-1436), Genaera's lead drug candidate for the treatment of type 2 diabetes and obesity. MSI-1436 is a novel inhibitor of PTP1B, a validated molecular target that controls the function of both the leptin and insulin pathways to normalize glucose and decrease appetite. medicalnewstoday.com |
Childhood Obesity Linked To Newly Discovered Genes Scientists studying the gene maps of thousands of Europeans found three new genetic variations that increase the risk for obesity and said that together with what we already know about genes and obesity the findings could help to develop tools that can predict which young children are at risk of becoming obese. medicalnewstoday.com |
Online Support Drives Britons To Improve Their Health As the number of people with obesity rises Britons are turning to the web for help in making positive changes to their health, reports Bupa, the health and care company. Since its launch in January, over 200,000 people have visited Bupa's free online health check website, equating to one person every twenty seconds. The health check provides a personalised picture of an individual's health based on their medical and lifestyle risks in just twenty minutes. medicalnewstoday.com |
A Prospective fMRI Study Of Dopamine-Related Activity Of Food Reward Circuits In The Brain And Weight Gain Research to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior (SSIB), July 28 - August 1, 2009, the foremost society for research into all aspects of eating and drinking behavior, finds that women who possess genetic modifications associated with low activity of the reward neurotransmitter dopamine in the brain when they imagine eating appetizing foods are more prone to weight gain. medicalnewstoday.com |
New Lung Health Research Presented At CHEST 2009 Osteoporosis Linked to Bronchiectasis (#8660) Patients with non-cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis may have a high incidence of osteopenia and osteoporosis. Researchers from Scott & White Hospital and Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine in Texas reviewed the records of 113 patients admitted to the hospital with acute exacerbation of bronchiectasis. The mean age of the patients was 63 years, 76 percent were Caucasian, and 70 percent were women. medicalnewstoday.com |