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The Hypothalamus is the area of the brain that controls body temperature, hunger, and thirst.

The Center for Modeling Optimal Outcomes discovers causal path of autism

18. November 2009 06:15
During its research into the application of neuroscience in business, a New Jersey based think tank, The Center for Modeling Optimal Outcomes®, LLC (The Center) made an inadvertent and amazing discovery. [More]

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Ipsen receives marketing authorization in France for its 6-month sustained-release formulation of Decapeptyl

13. November 2009 01:39
Ipsen, an innovation-driven global specialty pharmaceutical Group announces that the French regulatory authorities (Agence Française de Sécurité Sanitaire des Produits de Santé, AFSSAPS) have today granted the marketing authorization to the 6-month sustained-release formulation of Decapeptyl® (triptorelin embonate 22.5 mg) for the treatment of locally advanced and metastatic prostate cancer. [More]

Arena Pharmaceuticals presents data from its Phase 3 trial of LOrcaserin

28. October 2009 04:47
Arena Pharmaceuticals, Inc. reported today data from the pivotal BLOSSOM (Behavioral modification and LOrcaserin Second Study for Obesity Management) Phase 3 trial that demonstrate improvements in patients' body composition, cardiovascular risk factors and quality of life. These findings add to the previously announced top-line BLOSSOM data that showed highly significant weight loss with lorcaserin over one year of treatment in 4,008 patients. [More]

Hypothalamic dysfunction can cause Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

24. October 2009 05:29
Dr. Oz's guest Jacob Teitelbaum, MD, best-selling author of From Fatigued to Fantastic! (Avery Penguin Group) and Pain Free 1-2-3 (McGraw-Hill), suffered from CFS when he was in medical school and had to drop out for a year to recover. [More]

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Debiopharm Group and Ipsen complete European decentralised registration of Decapeptyl

13. October 2009 02:09
Debiopharm Group (Debiopharm), a Swiss-based global biopharmaceutical group of companies with a focus on the development of prescription drugs that target unmet medical needs, and Ipsen (Euronext: FR0010259150; IPN), an innovation-driven global specialty pharmaceutical Group, announced that the 6-month sustained-release formulation of Decapeptyl®1 (triptorelin embonate2 22.5 mg) successfully completed its European decentralised registration procedure involving nine countries: Germany (reference member state), France, Austria, Finland, Norway, Belgium, Denmark, Spain and The Netherlands. [More]

Arena Pharmaceuticals to present Phase 3 BLOSSOM trial results at Obesity 2009

12. October 2009 09:25
Arena Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ARNA) announced today that lorcaserin will be featured in multiple presentations at Obesity 2009, the 27th Annual Scientific Meeting of The Obesity Society in Washington, DC. [More]

Depomed announces results from BREEZE 1 and 2 Phase 3 clinical trials of Serada

12. October 2009 07:57
Depomed, Inc. announced today top-line results from the BREEZE 1 and 2 Phase 3 clinical trials evaluating the safety and efficacy of SeradaTM, an investigational non-hormonal extended release formulation of gabapentin for the treatment of menopausal hot flashes. [More]

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Top ten sleep and beauty tips

5. October 2009 03:04
Bob Hickman, United Feather & Down's Senior Vice Present of Sales and Marketing, and Neil A. Petrocelli, Borghese, Inc.'s Vice President of Marketing, list their top sleep and beauty tips. [More]

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Stress linked to ischemic strokes

1. October 2009 19:56
Strong links have been uncovered between stress and ischemic strokes. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Medicine have carried out the first study into the correlation between self-reported feelings of prolonged psychological stress and different stroke subtypes. [More]

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Hormone leptin can regulate bone mass and suppress appetite

24. September 2009 02:16
Contrary to the prevailing view, the hormone leptin, which is critical for normal food intake and metabolism, appears to regulate bone mass and suppress appetite by acting mainly through serotonin pathways in the brain, according to a recent study published in Cell by Yale School of Medicine researchers and colleagues at Columbia University. This new finding contradicts the view that leptin acts primarily in the hypothalamus. [More]

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Results from the BLOSSOM trial announced by Arena Pharmaceuticals

18. September 2009 04:38
Arena Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ARNA) reported today positive, highly significant top-line results from the BLOSSOM (Behavioral modification and LOrcaserin Second Study for Obesity Management) trial. [More]

Study investigating the effect of FTO obesity gene in relation to food habits

11. September 2009 05:10
The risk of becoming obese is 2.5 times higher for those who have double copies of the best known risk gene for overweight and obesity. However, this is only true if the fat consumption is high. A low fat diet neutralizes the harmful effects of the gene. [More]

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Rutgers University Professor receives $3.5 million MERIT Award from NIH

27. August 2009 23:23
Rutgers University Professor Dipak Sarkar has received a $3.5 million MERIT Award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to continue researching the damaging effects of alcohol on the nervous systems of the unborn. [More]

Leptin influences baseline dopamine levels and motivation to eat

5. August 2009 21:26
As we all know from experience, people eat not only because they are hungry, but also because the food just simply tastes too good to pass up. Now, a new study in the August 6th Cell Metabolism, a Cell Press publication, helps to explain how leptin, a hormone produced by fat tissue, influences that motivation to eat. [More]

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New findings on how stress causes sexual dysfunction and infertility

16. June 2009 02:49
University of California, Berkeley, researchers have found what they think is a critical and, until now, missing piece of the puzzle about how stress causes sexual dysfunction and infertility. [More]
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