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The time between pregnancies is a golden window for obese women to lose weight, a Saint Louis University study finds. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-06-weight-babies.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Mon, 03 Jun 2013 18:04:44 EST news289501477 (Medical Xpress)—Longitudinal studies of children exposed to methadone in the womb need to accompany methadone maintenance treatment for drug-addicted pregnant mothers, according to a research team led by a University of Maine doctoral student in psychology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-early-methadone-exposure.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Fri, 05 Apr 2013 07:30:02 EST news284363011 (Medical Xpress)—Researchers at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have made a discovery in neuroscience that could offer a long-lasting solution to eating disorders such as obesity. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-breakthrough-neuroscience-re-wire-appetite.html Neuroscience Fri, 05 Apr 2013 07:00:02 EST news284362843 (Medical Xpress)—Traditional Chinese medicine could be a key weapon in the treatment of type 2 diabetes, a joint international study has found. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-chinese-medicine-key-diabetes.html Diabetes Thu, 28 Mar 2013 07:16:02 EST news283673755 New Zealand research revealing a new mechanism for how glucose stimulates insulin secretion may provide a new explanation for how a gene that makes people more susceptible to diabetes – called TCF7L2 – actually contributes to the disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-mechanism-insulin-secretion-genetic-susceptibility.html Diabetes Mon, 04 Feb 2013 05:50:26 EST news279179354 (HealthDay)—Flu remains at epidemic proportions across the United States, but flu activity decreased in some areas during the second week of January, according to FluView, a weekly influenza surveillance report prepared by the Influenza Division of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-cdc-flu-high-states.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Sat, 19 Jan 2013 13:00:02 EST news277800900 Obese patients have a greater risk of complications following total knee replacement surgery, including post-surgical infections, according to a new literature review recently published in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (JBJS). Because of complications, obese patients are more likely to require follow-up surgery (revision). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-knee-easy-solution-obese-patients.html Overweight and Obesity Wed, 24 Oct 2012 15:10:02 EST news270305759 CSL Limited has developed a new drug candidate that is able to prevent the development of type 2 diabetes and reverse its progression in animal models of the disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-drug-candidate-diabetes-breakthrough.html Diabetes Wed, 26 Sep 2012 17:46:56 EST news267900403 Researchers at the University of Leicester have announced that the UK's first operation to tackle heart failure (HF) with a novel nerve-stimulating device will be performed today (Thursday August 23) at Glenfield Hospital. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-uk-tackle-heart-failure-nerve-stimulating.html Cardiology Thu, 23 Aug 2012 04:41:29 EST news264915604 (Medical Xpress) -- Understanding cultural influences on African-American women may be important in helping them achieve long-term weight loss, according to researchers from Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine (BCM). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-african-american-women-weight.html Overweight and Obesity Wed, 06 Jun 2012 05:40:01 EST news258179240 Type 2 diabetes has reached epidemic proportions around the world, fueled in large part by the equally alarming expansion of obesity as a global health problem. But while it's well-known that obesity is the most common cause of insulin resistance – the primary metabolic abnormality in type 2 diabetes – researchers have only recently begun to effectively parse the underlying, complicated relationships between lipids (fats and related molecules essential to cell structure and function) and chronic tissue inflammation (a key cause of obesity-induced insulin resistance). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-insulin-resistance-inflammation-muscle-saving-protein.html Medical research Tue, 01 May 2012 15:10:01 EST news255102169 Exercising, eating a healthy diet and playing brain games may help you keep your wits about you well into your 80s and even 90s, advises a new book by researchers at George Mason University. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-aging-brains-sharp-brain-games.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 04 Apr 2012 12:18:25 EST news252760660 The poor diet of shift workers should be considered a new occupational health hazard, according to an editorial published in this month's PLoS Medicine. The editorial draws on previous work published in the journal, which showed an association between an increased risk of type 2 diabetes and rotating patterns of shift work in US nurses. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-unhealthy-occupational-hazard.html Health Tue, 27 Dec 2011 17:00:02 EST news244197159 (AP) -- World leaders have pledged to take wide-ranging action to prevent millions of deaths from cancer, diabetes, and heart and lung disease by tackling the key causes - smoking, excessive drinking, lack of exercise and unhealthy diets dominated by fast food. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-leaders-vow-deaths-chronic-disease.html Health Wed, 21 Sep 2011 18:06:01 EST news235847150 A nationwide study confirms that binge drinking has reached epidemic proportions in China and argues that efforts to tackle the problem must address the country's unique drinking culture. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-chinese-culture-binge-middle-aged-men.html Health Tue, 19 Jul 2011 03:04:36 EST news230263468