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  • Workings of Body's Master Energy Regulator Revealed
    to treat metabolic disease such as diabetes and obesity, and maybe some forms of cancers. ... an attractive target for the treatment of metabolic diseases like diabetes and obesity. ...
    10-3-2013
  • Young Companies in the Money: 25 Firms to Watch
    ... advancing its portfolio of potential therapeutics for the treatment of diabetes, obesity and other cardiometabolic diseases Financing leader: No leader denoted Additional ...
    10-2-2013
  • NYC Institutions Launch Drug Development Institute, Partner with...
    for a variety of indications ranging from infectious disease to orphan diseases, and more common disorders such as Alzheimer's disease, cancer, HIV, heart disease, and obesity. ...
    10-1-2013
  • Allergan Licenses Rights to Medytox Candidates, in Up-to-$362M...
    eye care, neurosciences, medical aesthetics, medical dermatology, breast aesthetics, obesity intervention, and urologics. Agreement includes outside-Korea development and ...
    9-26-2013
  • Gut Bacteria May Hold Key to Overcoming Obesity
    reaction that could eventually lead to new treatments for obesity and diabetes in humans. ... X receptor signaling and decreased obesity") in the current issue of Nature ...
    9-25-2013
  • Improve Your Lifestyle, Lengthen Your Telomeres
    ... stroke, vascular dementia, cardiovascular disease, obesity, osteoporosis, and diabetes. "We looked at telomeres in the participants' blood, not their prostate tissue," said Dr. ...
    9-17-2013
  • Bugs and the Body
    can cure everything from Crohn's disease and obesity to cancer continues to be misleading. ... Earlier this year, Danish research, citing the obesity epidemic in developed nations, ...
    9-9-2013
  • NIH Funds Minority Disease Susceptibility Studies
    and conditions, such as heart disease, type 2 diabetes, obesity, and hypertension. ... and conditions, such as type 2 diabetes, obesity, common cancers, fasting insulin levels, ...
    9-6-2013
  • Bacteria from Lean Humans Can Slim Obese Mice
    To directly test the influence of the human gut microbiome on obesity, the investigators ... Increased total body and fat mass, as well as obesity-associated metabolic phenotypes, ...
    9-5-2013
  • Purging Protein Profiling Problems
    ... A 1.8-fold change in the glyco-isoform ratios correlated with obesity, specifically among subjects eligible for bariatric surgery. Bariatric surgery resulted in the rapid change of ...
    9-1-2013
  • Appetite-Controlling Hormone Leaves Obese People Still Hungry
    The response to the hormone was detectable in this population, even 24 hours after it was administered. "The findings could influence efforts to develop new treatments for obesity ...
    8-21-2013
  • Pfizer, Sanford-Burnham Team Up on Obesity, Diabetes Target Research
    new therapeutic targets for preventing and treating complications of obesity and diabetes. ... for reducing insulin resistance in obesity and diabetes, the research institute said. ...
    8-13-2013
  • Math Casts New Light on Long-Studied Biological Process
    ... Other applications for this new knowledge include the study of obesity as well as cancer, he added. Mathematical analysis of physiological processes such as catabolite repression ...
    8-7-2013
  • Making Sense of Small Molecules
    ... And there are more tests in the works. Aside from type 2 diabetes and other obesity-relate... Some of these compounds, he adds, have already been implicated in everything from obesity ...
    8-1-2013
  • Unraveling the Transcriptome
    They found that fat mass and obesity-associated protein, FTO, involved in human obesity and energy homeostasis, is an oxidative demethylase of RNA N6-methyladenosine. Subsequently, ...
    7-1-2013
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    Journal Articles

  • Obesity, Nutrition, and Asthma in Children
    Jason E. Lang
    Pediatric Allergy, Immunology, and Pulmonology
    Obesity, Nutrition, and Asthma in Children Pediatric Allergy, Immunology, and Pulmonology Obesity rates have increased dramatically among children in many parts of the world, ...
  • Obesity, Nutrition, and Asthma in Children
    Jason E. Lang
    Pediatric Allergy, Immunology, and Pulmonology
    Obesity, Nutrition, and Asthma in Children Pediatric Allergy, Immunology, and Pulmonology Obesity rates have increased dramatically among children in many parts of the world, ...
  • Obesity in Jordan: Prevalence, Associated Factors, Comorbidities...
    Yousef Khader, Anwar Batieha, Haitham Ajlouni, Mohammed El-Khateeb, Kamel Ajlouni
    Metabolic Syndrome and Related Disorders
    Obesity in Jordan: Prevalence, Associated Factors, Comorbidities, and Change in Prevalence ... Abstract Objectives: To determine the prevalence of obesity in northern Jordan, identify ...
  • Obesity Distribution and Reproductive Hormone Levels in Women...
    Marian B. Olson, Leslee J. Shaw, Eloise E. Kaizar, Sheryl F. Kelsey, Vera Bittner, Steven E. Reis, Karen Smith, Glenn D. Braunstein, Sarah L. Berga, B. Delia Johnson, C. Noel Bairey Merz
    Journal of Women's Health
    Obesity Distribution and Reproductive Hormone Levels in Women: A Report from the ... disease are not straightforward. Central obesity appears to be a relatively greater ...

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