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Women who gain weight during pregnancy are more likely to give birth to heavier babies

Moms-to-be who gain too much weight early into their pregnancy are nearly three times as likely to give birth to bigger and fatter babies, warns a University of Alberta researcher.

17 Jul 2013

Research: Exercise during pregnancy halves risk of having newborn baby with macrosomia

The British Journal of Sports Medicine recently published the conclusions of a study by researchers at the University of Granada, Polytechnic University of Madrid and European University of Madrid.

17 Jul 2013

Cigna, Hunterdon Healthcare Partners launch collaborative accountable care initiative

Cigna and Hunterdon Healthcare Partners, LLC, a physician hospital organization (PHO) affiliated with Hunterdon Healthcare, have launched a collaborative accountable care initiative to improve patient access to health care, enhance care coordination, and achieve the "triple aim" of improved health, affordability and patient experience.

16 Jul 2013

Qualigen's FastPack Vitamin D Immunoassay receives FDA clearance

Qualigen, Inc., a privately owned company that provides rapid, easy to use, fully quantitative diagnostic testing solutions, announced today that it has received 510(k) clearance from the United States Food and Drug Administration for its FastPack Vitamin D Immunoassay for use on its proprietary FastPack System for the rapid determination of vitamin D status.

16 Jul 2013

Majority of Australians do not know the risk factors associated with diabetes

New research conducted by Medibank 24/7 Health Advice Line reveals the majority (97%) of Australians do not know all the major symptoms of diabetes or how many types there are, despite it affecting 3.6 million people nationwide and costing the economy $6 billion per year.

16 Jul 2013

Alize Pharma initiates AZP-531 Phase I clinical trial for treatment of type 2 diabetes

Alize Pharma, a company specialized in the development of drugs for the treatment of metabolic diseases and rare diseases, announces today the launch of the first Phase I clinical trial for AZP-531, its unacylated ghrelin analog, in type 2 diabetes.

16 Jul 2013

Obese fathers may pass their obesity to children and grandchildren

New research from the University of Adelaide shows that the sperm of obese fathers could increase the risk of both their children and their grandchildren to inherit obesity.

16 Jul 2013

Coffee and appetite: an interview with Matt Schubert and Associate Professor Ben Desbrow, Griffith University

We wanted to do something a bit different than the “typical” work on caffeine and exercise, and I have considerable interest in appetite regulation, so we built up from there.

15 Jul 2013

ACOEM, ACPM urge adoption of stronger national policies for preventive medicine

The American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine and the American College of Preventive Medicine urged the adoption of stronger national policies to encourage preventive medicine - including in the workplace -- during a special Congressional briefing Tuesday, July 9 in Washington, D.C.

15 Jul 2013

Ipsen closes acquisition of UK-based Syntaxin

Ipsen announced today the closing of the acquisition of Syntaxin, a UK-based private life sciences company specialized in botulinum toxin engineering.

15 Jul 2013

Scientists uncover mechanism that controls cell death processes

Scientists have uncovered the mechanism that controls whether cells that are able to suppress immune responses live or die.

15 Jul 2013

‘Risking It’ campaign to raise awareness on coronary heart disease

A health expert from Sheffield Hallam University has become the face of a national campaign against heart disease after making significant improvements to his own lifestyle.

From Sheffield Hallam University 15 Jul 2013

Ipsen, Harvard initiate collaboration to discover, develop botulinum toxins for neurologic diseases

Ipsen announced today that it has initiated a research and development collaboration on novel engineered botulinum toxins with Harvard Medical School.

15 Jul 2013

Scientists successfully transplant insulin-producing cells from one species to another

In the first step toward animal-to-human transplants of insulin-producing cells for people with type 1 diabetes, Northwestern Medicine- scientists have successfully transplanted islets, the cells that produce insulin, from one species to another. And the islets survived without immunosuppressive drugs.

15 Jul 2013

Three DACA-eligible students to participate in Summer Enrichment Program at SSOM

Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine has welcomed three Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals eligible students into its Summer Enrichment Program.

15 Jul 2013

Researchers discover potential markers for severity of juvenile idiopathic arthritis

Children who suffer from arthritis could one day receive more targeted treatment thanks to potential markers for the severity of the disorder discovered by researchers at the University of Adelaide and Women's and Children's Hospital.

15 Jul 2013

Patients with early AD also have undiagnosed pre-diabetes, says Georgetown neurologist

When Georgetown University neurologist R. Scott Turner, MD, PhD, began enrolling people with mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease into a nationwide study last year, he expected to find only a handful of participants with undiagnosed glucose intolerance, as all the patients were already under a doctor's care and those with known diabetes were excluded.

15 Jul 2013

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Latest Endocrinology News and Research

Women who gain weight during pregnancy are more likely to give birth to heavier babies

Research: Exercise during pregnancy halves risk of having newborn baby with macrosomia

Cigna, Hunterdon Healthcare Partners launch collaborative accountable care initiative

Qualigen's FastPack Vitamin D Immunoassay receives FDA clearance

Majority of Australians do not know the risk factors associated with diabetes

Alize Pharma initiates AZP-531 Phase I clinical trial for treatment of type 2 diabetes

Obese fathers may pass their obesity to children and grandchildren

Coffee and appetite: an interview with Matt Schubert and Associate Professor Ben Desbrow, Griffith University

ACOEM, ACPM urge adoption of stronger national policies for preventive medicine

Ipsen closes acquisition of UK-based Syntaxin

Scientists uncover mechanism that controls cell death processes

‘Risking It’ campaign to raise awareness on coronary heart disease

Ipsen, Harvard initiate collaboration to discover, develop botulinum toxins for neurologic diseases

Scientists successfully transplant insulin-producing cells from one species to another

Three DACA-eligible students to participate in Summer Enrichment Program at SSOM

Researchers discover potential markers for severity of juvenile idiopathic arthritis

Patients with early AD also have undiagnosed pre-diabetes, says Georgetown neurologist

Genetic abnormality linked to cancer four times more common in people with type 2 diabetes

Health IT systems being used to track doctors, too

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Synthetic Psychedelics: A Growing Public Health Concern

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