THE WOODLANDS, Texas, Oct. 12 Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: LXRX), a biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering breakthrough treatments for human disease, announced today that Dr. Arthur T. Sands, president and chief ...
BOSTON, Oct. 11 Gelesis, Inc., a Boston-based company focused on breakthrough treatments for obesity, presented new results at Obesity 2010, the 28th Annual Scientific Meeting of The Obesity Society (San Diego). The new data demonstrated ...
REYKJAVIK, Iceland, October 11, 2010 In two of the largest metastudies of their kind to date, scientists from the GIANT consortium, including deCODE as well as hundreds of academic institutions on three continents, today report the discovery of ...
PITTSBURGH, Oct. 4 In an effort to address the serious health reality of childhood obesity, Highmark Healthy High 5 has taken its $8 million School Challenge Grant program to a new level by providing $650,000 in Super+ School Challenge grants to 13 ...
WASHINGTON , Sept. 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services' Department of Health Policy today released a report that, for the first time, calculated the startlingly high ...
TAMPA, Fla., Sept. 16 Moms-to-be have asked for it and now St. Joseph's Hospital-North delivers a birthing experience like no other hospital stay. The area's first new hospital in more than 30 years has added obstetric services, bringing ...
BOSTON , Sept. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Gelesis, a Boston -based obesity company, announced today that it has been named to the FierceBiotech "Fierce 15" list, designating it as one of the top emerging biotech companies of 2010. The editors ...
TAMPA, Fla., Sept. 14 This September and October, U.S. cities across the nation will host the annual Walk from Obesity. From Los Angeles to New York, those affected by the disease of obesity, loved ones, friends, colleagues, healthcare ...
OWINGS MILLS, Md., Sept. 8 Medifast, Inc. (NYSE: MED) announces the grand opening of the first Virginia Medifast Weight Control Center, located in Fairfax. The new center is approximately 1,275-square-feet and has six private counseling ...
- Brand Ambassador Jennifer Hudson Encourages Americans to lose weight for greater gain - NEW YORK , Sept. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- For the past two years, Weight Watchers members have shown that they can improve their health while helping those ...
Soumya Swaminathan, former WHO Chief Scientist, highlights that the rise in abdominal obesity in India is largely due to unhealthy diets and a lack of physical activity, pointing to a significant public health concern ( ). ...
Essential need to preserve skeletal muscle mass when using GLP-1 receptor agonists for weight loss has been highlighted in the Lancet editorial. Although effective for obesity treatment, these medications raise concerns over the potential for ...
Expanding access to new and highly effective weight-loss medications could save over 40,000 deaths every year in the United States ( ). A recent study by the Yale School of Public Health and the University of Florida, explains the ...
New blood test has been developed that measures lipids to identify children at risk of obesity-related complications, including type 2 diabetes , liver disease , and heart disease , as per a study from King’s College London published in Nature ...
A BMJ investigation has uncovered a widespread lack of access to obesity care in England. Nearly half of the country's patients cannot see specialist weight loss teams, and...
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