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CNN Weight Loss News

October 26th
Losing weight is hard, but keeping the pounds off can be even harder.
October 20th
When federal housing officials created a program in the mid-1990s to help single-mother households in poor neighborhoods relocate to low-poverty areas, they weren't merely interested in providing access to better homes, jobs, and schools. They also wanted...
August 16th
You may be obese, but does that automatically mean you're unhealthy?
June 27th
A 4-year-old lumbered into a Boston pediatric clinic. He walked with a limp.
March 24th
Roughly two-thirds of adults and one-third of children in the U.S. are now overweight or obese. Aside from contributing to rising rates of diabetes and other chronic illnesses, this widespread weight problem also appears to be changing our perception of w...
January 14th
Ann Silk, MD, worries about her overweight patients. But Dr. Silk, an internal-medicine resident at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, isn't concerned only about their diets and cholesterol levels.

 

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February 6th
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congress went beyond its powers by requiring Americans to buy insurance under President Barack Obama's sweeping healthcare overhaul, opponents told the Supreme Court on Monday in arguing the law's centerpiece provisi...
February 6th
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The revised definition of a brain condition called mild cognitive impairment means that many people now considered to have mild or early Alzheimer's disease could easily be given that diagnosis instead, suggests a n...
February 6th
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Despite expert guidelines and scientific evidence to the contrary, a third of U.S. primary care physicians believe ovarian cancer screening is effective and many would offer it to patients, according to a new survey. Al...
February 6th
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Reviewers from Food and Drug Administration said they were not sure whether Amgen Inc's Xgeva bone drug should be also approved as a treatment to delay the spread of cancer to the bone. The FDA reviewers' concerns, r...
February 6th
MONDAY, Feb. 6 (HealthDay News) -- Women with a history of mental illness do not seem to be at increased risk of readmission to a psychiatric hospital after having an abortion in their first trimester, a new study suggests.
February 6th
MONDAY, Feb. 6 (HealthDay News) -- Adding more fuel to the controversial topic of children and spanking, two Canadian child development experts have published a new analysis that warns that physical punishment poses serious risks to a child's ...