Topic: Obesity
Britain is having to buy new ambulances and upgrade others to cope with a growing number of fat patients as an obesity crisis grips the country, a report said Thursday.Every ambulance service in Britain has had to buy extra-strength wheelchairs and wider ...
The US Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday declined to approve a weight loss drug by the California pharmaceutical company Orexigen, saying it must conduct more studies to rule out heart risks.The surprise announcement sent Orexigen stock plunging and came after an ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. health regulators rejected Orexigen Therapeutics Inc's weight-loss drug and requested a clinical trial to resolve heart safety concerns, dealing a huge blow to what stood to be the first new diet pill in a decade.Its shares tanked ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Offering downsized meal portions in addition to normal ones at cafeterias may help some people cut their calorie intake, Dutch researchers say.They say the smaller portions could work in other settings, too, and might help curb obesity, ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - A lack of shuteye over the weekend could be piling extra weight onto U.S. children, a sixth of whom are already obese, a study says.The research, published in Pediatrics, followed the sleeping habits of 300 children between ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Smoking and, to a smaller degree, obesity explain why Americans do not live as long as the French or Japanese, U.S. experts reported on Tuesday.Even though just 20 percent of Americans smoke now, more than 40 percent of U.S. ...
High smoking rates in the past, combined with widespread obesity, continue to chip away at US life expectancy compared to other wealthy nations, a study released Tuesday said.Over the past 25 years, life expectancy after 50 has risen in the United States, ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The definition of a 'healthy' waistline may have a bit more wiggle room for African-American women than for white women, a new study suggests.As it stands, men are considered to have abdominal obesity when their waistline tops ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - U.S. grocers joined with food and drink makers to unveil a new system on Monday for putting nutritional information on packages ahead of plans from U.S. regulators, who have called for clear and accurate labels to help fight ...
GENEVA (Reuters) - Governments must work with industry to restrict advertising of foods high in salt, sugar and dangerous fats targeted at children to tackle an epidemic of obesity and other diseases, health officials said on Friday.The call is part of a ...
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