Items tagged with Obesity

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Molecular Thermostat and Diabetes

Sunday, September 13th, 2009 - 19:38:14 - Ehud Rattner

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have discovered a molecular circuit involving heme that helps maintain proper...

Watch the Clock to Lose Weight

Sunday, September 6th, 2009 - 19:29:46 - Ehud Rattner

When we eat may be just as important as what we eat. A new study shows that mice that eat when they should be sleeping gain more weight than mice...

Coopting a Cancer Treatment to Spur Fat Loss

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009 - 18:36:22 - Anuradha Menon

Both cancer and obesity kill hundreds of thousands of patients each year, but they have more than the Grim Reaper in common. Tumors and excess fat...

Exclusion of Key Enzyme Reduces Obesity

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009 - 12:27:12 - Anuradha Menon

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have identified a new enzyme that plays a far more important role than expected in controlling...

'Cure' Obesity with Fat Destroying Worms

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008 - 16:45:23 - Anuradha Menon

Usual metabolic process goes awry in recently discovered mutation, burning lipids instead of storing them. A previously unknown mutation discovered...

Anti-Obesity Drugs Effective Against FLU?

Monday, September 29th, 2008 - 09:57:30 - Ehud Rattner

Viruses dramatically increase cellular metabolism, and existing anti-obesity drugs may represent a new way to block these metabolic changes and...

Obesity Surgery Performed Through Vagina

Thursday, September 25th, 2008 - 12:24:46 - Ehud Rattner

On Tuesday, September 16, 2008, the UC San Diego Center for the Future of Surgery performed the nation’s first gastrectomy, a partial removal of the...

Does Childhood Obesity Begin in Infancy?

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008 - 12:13:16 - Ehud Rattner

Over the last decade, childhood obesity has grown into an epidemic, reflected in soaring rates of type 2 diabetes and recommendations that...

Fat Gene Discovered
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008 - Anni Shaer Levitt
Researchers at William Harvey Research Institute and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry in London took part in an...