Topic: Obesity
Shares of Orexigen Therapeutics Inc. surged Thursday after the drugmaker said it signed a $1 billion co-development agreement for its experimental obesity drug Contrave with Takeda Pharmaceuticals. Under the deal, Orexigen will receive $50 million upfront from Takeda, Japan's largest drugmaker. Takeda ...
Physical exercise can reduce a genetic predisposition to obesity by an average of 40 percent, a new study showed. The research challenges the notion that an inherited propensity to obesity is impossible to overcome and boosts the case for the benefit of ...
Children in the United States are facing a bigger health risk in the form of obesity. Several children are used and almost addicted to sodas. Children drink soda like they drink water. However, nobody, including the parents, is counting the calories in ...
As time goes by obesity is slowly turning into a huge problem the State faces. For most citizens, eating is more than a necessity. Some treat this as a hobby that you simply couldn't let go of, while others see this as ...
If Americans were paid to eat less and exercise more they might be motivated to lose some weight-and save us a bundle on health care-says Dr. Barry M. Popkin, director of University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill's Interdisciplinary Center for Obesity.. "From a ...
Obesity in the United States is at an all time high, growing faster than ever, doubling in adults and tripling in children, health officials have stated. Dr. Thomas Frieden, the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), has come ...
Obesity is a person more likely to cause health problems. Even mild obesity if the BMI is only 25 + can be dangerous sometimes. For example, research shows that a person is 40 percent overweight is twice more likely to die early ...
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazilians' waistlines are bulging, belying the country's image as a place of buff sun worshipers and lithe soccer players. Nearly half of adult Brazilians are overweight and about 15 percent are obese, Brazil's IBGE social statistics agency ...
The number of obese people in England undergoing surgery in NHS hospitals to help them lose weight has increased ten-fold since 2000, according to a study published Friday. Weight-loss procedures rose from 238 in 2000 to 2,543 in 2007, while between April ...
Doctors in central China are puzzling over a 10-month-old baby boy who weighs 20 kilos (44 lbs) -- about as much as a normal child of six years -- but is otherwise healthy, state media reported. The infant, whose name was not ...
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