POSTS TAGGED AS obesity

Implantable Device for Bariatric Medicine

“Abiliti” is the name of a implantable “gastric pacemaker” made by Intrapace, Inc. (Mountain View, CA) that is now [MORE]

How Common Is Good Heart Health? Not Very

Nonsmoking, a BMI below 25, goal level exercise and a good diet, unmedicated cholesterol below 200, BP below 120/80, [MORE]

Predicting Metabolic Syndrome in the First Decade of Life

Professor of Public Health at the LSU Health Sciences Center (New Orleans), Melinda Sothern, recently reported her findings that [MORE]

VC’s Pursuing Obesity Projects

With the World Health Organization (WHO) projecting that, by 2015, 2.3 billion adults will be overweight, and among them 700 [MORE]

Good News/Bad News: Smoking and Obesity

When the American Tobacco Company launched its advertising campaign at women in 1928, with the slogan “Reach for a Lucky [MORE]

Teledieting: Dr. Louis Aronne

Weill Cornell Medical College physician Dr. Louis Aronne has authored a recent book, The Skinny: On Losing Weight Without Being [MORE]

Sleep, Diabetes and Obesity

A group of researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center Bariatric Surgery Clinic have reported finding a link between [MORE]