On average, patients undergoing gastric bypass surgery can expect to lose about 60% of their excess weight after bypass surgery. This means that if you are about 150 pounds overweight, you can expect to lose …
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Results from the Diabetes Prevention Program Outcomes Study (DPPOS) showed that modest weight loss and increased physical activity successfully lowered the rate of type 2 diabetes after 10 years. This effect was most pronounced in …
Interval training, otherwise known as “sprint interval training”, has been the subject of research for a number of years. Studies consistently show that this type of training actually requires less time to achieve results and after all, …
The Nutrition Action Newsletter each month publishes a “right stuff” and “food porn” section on the back page. The articles are short and comment on food products sold in restaurants or supermarkets. Those who have been …
The New York Times has recently published a series of 3 articles, written by Amy Harmon, that follow an experimental drug’s effect on shrinking advanced melanoma.
The articles specifically write about the human side of drug trials by following five patients …
California’s Anthem Blue Cross, one of the largest health insurers in that state, announced a 39% increase in premiums and signaled that it will likely allow rate increases to occur more than once a year. …
Appendicitis occurs more frequently in men than women (3:2) and usually occurs in the second or third decade of life. Due to a number of factors, diagnosing acute appendicitis is more difficult in children under …
ER nurses (and docs and staff) have seen it all and their crusty humor is sharpened by some of the patients that they see who try their patience.
This informal survey by Reader’s Digest asked ER …
The New England Journal of Medicine published a study 2/11/10 that showed that childhood obesity doubled the risk of early death, defined as death before age 55. Childhood obesity is defined as having a body mass …
A simple test that measures reaction time in athletes may help diagnose concussion on the field. Although this test is not meant to replace computerized testing and medical treatment, delayed reaction time is one indicator of mild …
The Urban Institute (UI), an independent non-partisan policy institute, created in the 1960s to examine the problems facing American cities, released a paper in October 2009, entitled, “The Cost of Failure to Enact Health Reform: …
My father has lost his balance and fallen serveral times and when I watch him get up and try to navigate a narrow space his balance seems worse. So I asked him the other day, …
Yesterday, I had surgery to remove a neuroma in my foot. It was my second operation because, well, my first surgeon mistakenly believed it to be between my 2nd and 3rd toes and so removed …
This is the latest information (week ending 6/20/09) on the H1N1 (Swine) Flu Pandemic in the U.S. For further information go to the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) published by the U.S. government.
