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Patients Have Increased Hospitalization Rate After Gastric Bypass Surgery
Patients who have gastric bypass surgery have double the rate of hospitalization in the year following the operation than in the year preceding surgery.
Posted on October 22, 2005 - 4:51pm.
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Local Anesthetics Are Effective For Neuropathic Pain
Lidocaine and similar local anesthetics are effective for treating pain that emanates from damaged nerves, according to a systematic review of current evidence.
Posted on October 22, 2005 - 4:49pm.
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A High Fat, Low Carbohydrate Diet Improves Alzheimer's Disease In Mice
Mice with the mouse model of Alzheimer's disease show improvements in their condition when treated with a high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet.
Posted on October 22, 2005 - 4:48pm.
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End-Stage Renal Disease Incidence, Prognosis Improving For Patients With Diabetes
Patients with type 1 diabetes have an improved prognosis with regard to end-stage renal disease over the past four decades, and it appears the incidence of end-stage renal disease is lower than previously estimated.
Posted on October 22, 2005 - 4:46pm.
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Nutrition Expert Evaluates New Weight-Loss Medication Orlistat
New data presented at the 2005 Annual Meeting of NAASO, The Obesity Society in Vancouver, British Columbia. Provides some interesting information relating to weight loss, blood pressure, and cholesterol levels.
Posted on October 18, 2005 - 4:40pm.
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Joslin Study Sheds Light On Birth Defect Cause In Pregnant Women With Diabetes
High blood glucose levels in early pregnancy may deprive embryo of oxygen and lead to birth defects, Joslin Diabetes Center study shows.
Posted on October 7, 2005 - 7:11pm.
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Potential New Treatment For Insulin-Dependent Diabetes
Scientists in Japan have found a way to improve on a promising diabetes treatment; report that transplanted insulin-producing cells survive better when the activation of a specific type of immune cell is blocked.
Posted on October 7, 2005 - 7:09pm.
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Smoking May Increase Risk of Diabetes
Smoking may increase the risk of developing diabetes, according to new research by investigators at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and colleagues.
Posted on October 7, 2005 - 7:07pm.
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Human Beta-Cell Line Offers Hope For Type 1 Diabetes Breakthrough
Technique to create a reversibly immortalized beta-cell line represents a significant leap in the quest to develop an effective and universal treatment for type 1 diabetes.
Posted on October 7, 2005 - 7:02pm.
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Intake of Dietary Copper Helps Alzheimer's Patients
This clinical trial aims to elucidate a potential beneficial effect of copper orotate (an organic copper salt), which is given together with a standard cholinesterase inhibitor. A diagnosis of mild to moderate dementia of the Alzheimer type is a prerequisite.
Posted on October 7, 2005 - 6:57pm.
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Vast Majority Of Adults At Risk Of Becoming Overweight Or Obese
A large, community-based study found that over 30 years, nine out of 10 men and seven out of 10 women were overweight or became overweight.
Posted on October 7, 2005 - 6:29pm.
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Exercise, Eating Right Could Ease IBS, Diarrhea And Constipation In Obese Americans
Researchers found that a high body mass index (BMI) and lack of physical activity were associated with an increase in GI symptoms such as stomach pain, diarrhea, constipation and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).
Posted on October 7, 2005 - 6:24pm.
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Fried Food and Fatter Kids
New research shows that adolescents who eat large amounts of fried food away from home are heavier and more likely to have a poor-quality diet. Increased consumption leads to increase in body mass index of 9 to 14 year olds; puts children at risk for chronic disease later in life.
Posted on October 7, 2005 - 6:22pm.
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Perceptions Of Peer Opinion Influences Attitudes About Obesity
According to a study at Yale, one of the most effective ways to change negative attitudes about obese people is by addressing perceptions of normative beliefs within particular social groups.
Posted on October 7, 2005 - 6:20pm.
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Seaweed Could Make Junk Food Healthier
Junk food could be made healthier by adding an extract of an exotic type of seaweed, say British scientists.
Posted on October 7, 2005 - 6:18pm.
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Defective Lymphatic Vessels Identified As A Novel Cause Of Adult-Onset Obesity
Laboratory model missing one copy of Prox1 gene exhibits abnormal increase in fat accumulation around sites of lymph leakage from defective lymphatic vessels.
Posted on October 7, 2005 - 6:12pm.
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Hopkins Study Shows Living Kidney 'Paired Donation' An Effective Strategy In Overcoming Donor-Recipient Incompatiblities
A Johns Hopkins study has affirmed the success of living kidney "paired donation" (KPD) as a means of efficiently finding more kidney donors who are a match for patients in need.
Posted on October 7, 2005 - 6:11pm.
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Use Of Kidney Paired Donation For Incompatible Donors Could Expand Donor Pool
A preliminary study suggests that kidney paired donation transplantation, in which incompatible donor/recipient pairs exchange kidneys so that each recipient receives a compatible kidney, had graft survival rates equivalent to compatible live donor transplants.
Posted on October 7, 2005 - 6:09pm.
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Kidney Transplant Patients Face Higher Cancer Risk
People who receive a kidney transplant are nearly four times more likely to develop melanoma, a rare but deadly form of skin cancer, according to a study.
Posted on October 7, 2005 - 6:06pm.
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Early Treatment Of Macular Degeneration With Macugen May Help Patients Preserve Their Vision
The study found that early detection and treatment of age-related macular degeneration with pegaptanib sodium may enable AMD patients to maintain and, in some cases, regain vision.
Posted on October 7, 2005 - 6:02pm.
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Nocturnal Dialysis Improves Heart Disease In Patients With End-Stage Kidney Failure
A Toronto study comparing night-time hemodialysis patients to patients on thrice-weekly conventional dialysis and healthy patients show that the nightly hemodialysis patients were comparable to the healthy patients on all cardiovascular measures.
Posted on October 7, 2005 - 6:00pm.
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Nerve Changes from Diabetes Begin Earlier Than Previously Known
Mayo Clinic researchers have found that subtle change in nerve conduction is the first reliable sign of nerve complications from diabetes and that this change can be measured long before other symptoms or signs of nerve damage develop.
Posted on October 7, 2005 - 4:22pm.
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