• share
• favorite_border

Columbia researchers invent new method to treat obesity by using cationic nanomaterials that can target specific areas of fat and inhibit the unhealthy storage of enlarged fat cells. “Our studies highlight an unexpected strategy to treat visceral adiposity and suggest a new direction of exploring cationic nanomaterials for treating metabolic diseases,” said Columbia Engineering’s Biomedical Engineering Prof Kam Leong, a pioneer in using polycation to scavenge pathogens.

• share
• favorite_border

Weight loss is never an easy nut to crack, but a handful of almonds could keep extra kilos at bay according to new research from the University of South Australia.

• share
• favorite_border

Children who have experienced deprivation are more likely to make more impulsive choices than those who don’t and can lead to addictions in later life - research has shown.

• share
• favorite_border

A new study by Cedars-Sinai investigators describes risk factors that could make it more likely for people who have chronic pancreatitis, an ongoing inflammation of the pancreas, to develop diabetes. The findings are published in Diabetes Care.

• share
• favorite_border

A brisk walk for 20 minutes a day may not sound like much, but it could make a big difference for colorectal cancer patients. Regular physical activity reduces inflammation by improving the gut microbiome of patients, including patients who are obese, scientists at Huntsman Cancer Institute found. They researched the impact of exercise on the gut microbiome, the trillions of bacteria that live in our digestive system. Investigators found moderate exercise improved outcomes in colorectal cancer, the third most common cancer in the United States, excluding skin cancers. Scientists explain why their findings are so significant.

• share
• favorite_border

New research says interdisciplinary coalitions working to end child obesity can more quickly create lasting change if members form close relationships, are able to learn new information rapidly, and can share that new knowledge both within their existing networks and with people in other sectors.

• share
• favorite_border

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has awarded researchers Ellen Fitzsimmons-Craft and Denise Wilfley a grant to help improve outcomes for eating disorders in adolescent girls.

• share
• favorite_border

Here are some of the latest articles that have been added to the Arthritis channel on Newswise.

• share
• favorite_border

An experiment carried out across ten workplace cafeterias found no significant change in the overall number of calories purchased when food and drink labels showed the amount of physical activity required to burn off their calories.

• share
• favorite_border

A year-long study of the dietary habits of 9,341 Australians has backed growing evidence that highly processed and refined foods are the leading contributor of rising obesity rates in the Western world.

• share
• favorite_border

In a new study with obese mice, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers say they have added to evidence that specialized channel proteins are possible therapeutic targets for sleep apnea and similar abnormally slow breathing disorders in obese people.

• share
• favorite_border

A faulty gene, rather than a faulty diet, may explain why some people gain excessive weight even when they don’t eat more than others, UT Southwestern researchers at the Center for the Genetics of Host Defense have discovered.

• share
• favorite_border

• share
• favorite_border

A new grant from the National Institutes of Health to the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University will fund the collaborative development of community-based programs to increase local production and consumption of fruits and vegetables in the Mississippi Delta.

• share
• favorite_border

Researchers publish data on the effects of intermittent fasting on women's hormones

• share
• favorite_border

Engineered particles of purified sand could be the next anti-obesity therapy as new research from the University of South Australia shows that porous silica can prevent fats and carbohydrates from being adsorbed in the body.

• share
• favorite_border

The latest articles that have been added to the Environmental Health channel.

• share
• favorite_border

Two of the world’s leading authorities on bariatric and metabolic surgery have issued new evidence-based clinical guidelines that among a slew of recommendations expand patient eligibility for weight-loss surgery and endorse metabolic surgery for patients with type 2 diabetes beginning at a body mass index (BMI) of 30, a measure of body fat based on a person’s height and weight and one of several important screening criteria for surgery.

• share
• favorite_border

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center’s Research Highlights provides a glimpse into recent basic, translational and clinical cancer research from MD Anderson experts. Current advances include a combination approach to overcome PARP inhibitor resistance in breast and ovarian cancers, a deeper understanding of STAT3 mutations as drivers of disease progression, insights into the “obesity paradox” in men with advanced melanoma, a prognostic model for rapidly progressing vestibular schwannoma, and a role for cellular trafficking proteins in creating a metastasis-promoting lung cancer microenvironment.

• share
• favorite_border

In a series of experiments using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to measure brain activity across networks in the brain, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers looked at how stress might increase appetite in obese and lean adults.

• share
• favorite_border

New York Institute of Technology's Center for Esports Medicine announces a research collaboration with GE Healthcare that seeks to analyze the lean body mass of competitive esport athletes and help establish the sport’s first body composition benchmarks.

• share
• favorite_border

Endocrine experts will deliver free health services in West Baltimore during EndoCares® Baltimore, an in-person health education event being held on November 5.

• share
• favorite_border

A study by UChicago researchers identifies the role that the BNIP3 protein plays in the development of fatty liver and liver cancer.

• share
• favorite_border

The October issue of SLAS Discovery is now available open access on ScienceDirect.

• share
• favorite_border

Obesity has been a major global health issue in recent decades as more people eat unhealthy diets and fail to exercise regularly.

• share
• favorite_border

The Endocrine Society and the European Society of Endocrinology (ESE) have jointly awarded the 2023 Transatlantic Alliance Award—to Prof. George P. Chrousos, M.D., Sc.D.

• share
• favorite_border

Los expertos en salud brindarán servicios de salud gratuitos a la comunidad, incluyendo los residentes de Phoenix durante EndoCares® Phoenix, un evento de educación para la salud que se llevará a cabo el 22 de octubre.

• share
• favorite_border

Endocrine experts will deliver free health services to underrepresented communities, including LatinX residents, during EndoCares® Phoenix, an in-person health education event being held on October 22.

• share
• favorite_border

The American Cancer Society, the largest non-government, non-profit funding source of cancer research in the United States, has approved funding for 89 new Extramural Discovery Science research grants totaling $54.3 million.

• share
• favorite_border

The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics will honor eight registered dietitian nutritionists with the Academy’s prestigious 2022 Medallion Awards in recognition of outstanding service and leadership in the Academy and the nutrition and dietetics profession.

• share
• favorite_border

An 8-year study of nearly 1300 low-income adolescents in Los Angeles found that students who attended high performing charter high schools were much less likely to engage in risky substance use by the time they reached age 21. Males who attended the high-performing schools also had better physical health and lower obesity rates as young adults while females had substantially worse outcomes in those two areas.

• share
• favorite_border

First-of-its-kind dissection of adipose and muscle tissues reveal single-cell changes in metabolic tissues

• share
• favorite_border

Huntsman Cancer Institute researchers Mary Playdon, PhD, MPH, Scott Summers, PhD, and Neli Ulrich, PhD, MS received a $5 million grant on September 1, 2022. This grant will be used to research how obesity causes colorectal cancer.

• share
• favorite_border

Following rapid growth during the COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth visits are expected to remain an important part of endocrine care, according to a new Endocrine Society policy perspective published in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.

• share
• favorite_border

A world-first study from the University of South Australia’s Australian Centre for Precision Health has found a link between metabolism and dementia-related brain measures, providing valuable insights about the disease.

• share
• favorite_border

Fat cells, or adipocytes, that grow in close proximity to breast cancers can shift into other cell types that promote tumor growth, a new study by UT Southwestern researchers suggests. The findings, published in Cell Reports, could lead to new ways to fight breast cancer, a disease that is diagnosed in more than 300,000 U.S. women each year and kills nearly 45,000 annually.

• share
• favorite_border

Kuldeep Singh, M.D., FACS, MBA, FASMBS, Director of The Maryland Bariatric Center at Mercy, and Kristian Morey, RD, LDN, a Clinical Dietitian, appear together as guests of the Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore's ongoing talk show series, “Medoscopy”.

• share
• favorite_border

An unhealthy gut triggers changes in normal breast tissue that helps breast cancer spread to other parts of the body, new research from UVA Cancer Center reveals.

• share
• favorite_border