By UCLA Health Sciences
Babies who are born small have a tendency to put on weight during childhood and adolescence if allowed free access to calories. However, a new animal model study at UCLA found when small babies were placed on a diet of moderately regulated calories
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By Charlene Laino
Metformin Shows Preliminary Promise Against Prostate, Pancreatic Tumors
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An age of desire 2012-08-16
By JULIA MAY
TWO senior citizens are sitting in the old people's home, discussing their sex lives...
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By American Heart Association
If you don't get enough sleep, you may also eat too much -- and thus be more likely to become obese.
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By Scripps Health
Obesity appears to significantly increase the risk of death tied to sleeping pills, nearly doubling the rate of mortality even among those prescribed 18 or fewer pills in a year, researchers have reported.
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By Jennifer Warner
Less Than 2% of Americans Meet 7 Recommended Heart Health Goals
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By Sharanya Hrishikesh and Jochelle Mendonca
Pfizer Inc's (PFE.N) animal health unit Zoetis Inc filed for a $100 million initial public offering as the largest U.S. drugmaker narrows the focus on its core prescription drug business.
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By PRweb
Lakes Dermatology Is offering Allergan's new 5 mL Latisse. Allergan launched on August 1, 2012, a larger 5 mL bottle of Latisse in the USA. The original sized bottle is 3 mL.
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By Associated Press
British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline PLC will sell the rights to several of its products in Australia to Aspen Pharmacare Holdings Ltd. for nearly $270 million (172 million pounds).
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By Joe Schoenmann
Drug discount cards have been proliferating throughout the country as workers have lost their jobs and health insurance benefits during the Great Recession.
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By Caitlin Mason
Yo-yo dieting -- the repetitive loss and regain of body weight, also called weight cycling -- is prevalent in the Western world, affecting an estimated 10 percent to 40 percent of the population. The degree to which weight cycling may impact metabol
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By L. Susan Wiely
Computer and web-based weight management programmes may provide a cost effective way of addressing the growing problem of obesity, according to a team of seven researchers who undertook a Cochrane systematic review. The researchers, from Maryland, M
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By UNC Health Care
A team from UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, shows in the laboratory that B cells from patients with chronic GVHD are much more active than cells from patients without the disease.
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A GPS in Your DNA 2012-08-16
By American Friends of Tel Aviv University
While your DNA is unique, it also tells the tale of your family line. It carries the genetic history of your ancestors down through the generations. Now, says a Tel Aviv University researcher, it's also possible to use it as a map to your family's p
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By BMJ
Financial incentives (pay for performance) schemes for health professionals "can undermine motivation and worsen performance" warn US experts in an editorial published on bmj.com Aug. 14. They also say that gaming of the system is rife.
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By J. David Creswell
Many elderly people spend their last years alone. Spouses pass and children scatter. But being lonely is much more than a silent house and a lack of companionship. Over time, loneliness not only takes a toll on the psyche but can have a serious phys
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By Kentaro Sahashi
A team led by scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) has developed a new way of making animal models for a broad class of human genetic diseases -- those with pathology caused by errors in the splicing of RNA messages copied from genes.
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By Endocrine Society
A study to be published in the Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism (JCEM) suggests that physical activity for premenopausal women is very effective in reducing sclerostin -- a known inhibitor of bone formation. In ad
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By Elsevier
Depression takes a substantial toll on brain health. Brain imaging and post-mortem studies provide evidence that the wealth of connections in the brain are reduced in individuals with depression, with the result of impaired functional connections be
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By M. Uzuntarla, M. Ozer, D. Q. Guo
A new model of background noise present in the nervous system could help better understand neuronal signalling delay in response to a stimulus.
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