Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Yahoo! News: Weight Loss News

Yahoo! News: Weight Loss News


Weight-Loss Surgeries May Beat Standard Treatments for Diabetes

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MONDAY, March 26 (HealthDay News) -- A new international analysis comparing weight-loss procedures to standard diabetes treatments contends that surgery is more effective at helping people combat type 2 diabetes.

U.S. ponders heart safety trials for obesity drugs

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. health regulators are asking for advice on whether, and when, heart safety studies should be required for new obesity drugs, possibly adding a new hurdle on their path to approval. An advisory panel to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will discuss this week whether regulators should mandate such trials before the drugs can be marketed in the United States. ...

French medical orders target diet guru Pierre Dukan

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Doctor Pierre Dukan is pictured in 2011French medical orders have filed complaints against celebrity diet guru Pierre Dukan, whose diet was reportedly used by the Middleton family ahead of Kate's wedding to Britain's Prince William.


Government ponders heart safety trials for obesity drugs

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Health regulators are asking for advice on whether, and when, heart safety studies should be required for new obesity drugs, possibly adding a new hurdle on their path to approval. An advisory panel to the Food and Drug Administration will discuss this week whether regulators should mandate such trials before the drugs can be marketed in the United States. ...

Student fitness improves with anti-obesity program

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New York (Reuters Health) - Obesity rates continue to climb in California schools, but exercise and nutrition programs may be having a positive effect on student health, a new study suggests. Kids entered fifth grade more obese every year, but they did not gain more weight and their overall fitness improved as they moved to higher grades. "We accomplished a significant first step and that is to slow obesity," said Dr. William Bommer, a cardiologist at the University of California, Davis, who worked on the study. "But we importantly were not able to reverse it. ...

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