Google Alert for: obesity
August 18, 2005

Weight control protein SH2-B may yield anti-obesity drugs
Medical News Today (press release) - UK
A weight control protein with a key role in the brain's ability to monitor body fat content may yield new approaches for treating obesity and type 2 diabetes ...
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Rise in obesity driving knee, hip replacements
CTV - Canada
The Canadian Institute for Health Information has released a report showing a direct link between high obesity rates and an increase in knee and hip ...
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UPDATE 3-US FDA says Abbott obesity drug can stay on market
Reuters - USA
WASHINGTON, Aug 17 (Reuters) - Abbott Laboratories Inc. (ABT.N: Quote, Profile, Research) will still be able to sell its obesity drug Meridia after the US Food ...
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Surgery one option for obesity
SunHerald.com - Biloxi,MS,USA
... Q: Is weight loss surgery the good, the bad or the beautiful? A: Obesity has become the most controversial major health care issue in the country today. ...

Obesity in old age may not kill, but may disable
Reuters.uk - UK
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Obesity after the age of 70 may not shorten a person's life, but it may lead to more years of disability, a new study suggests. ...

Targeting obesity, companies will limit school drinks
AZ Central.com - AZ,USA
Some of the fizz will disappear from beverage vending machines in schools across the United States in a move aimed at attacking childhood obesity by limiting ...
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Obesity Runs in the Family
Forbes - USA
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 17 (HealthDay News) -- Kids raised in homes with poor dietary habits and a couch potato lifestyle are much more ...
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Walking school bus? Forum brainstorms on child obesity
Salt Lake Tribune - United States
By Tyler Peterson. Insurance coverage for obesity treatment. Report cards for PE class. School breakfast. These were just a few of ...
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Increasing sugar processing in the liver can lower blood sugar, U ...
Medical News Today (press release) - UK
Finding ways to increase that concentration could provide a treatment for diabetes and obesity. The research will be published in the Aug. ...
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Boomers bust out with record fat, study finds
Boston Herald - United States
... Though the obesity epidemic has affected both groups, boomers got a ``much earlier start'' and have spent more of their lives in an ``obese state,'' said the ...
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