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Scientists use inactive, fat rats to study juvenile obesity

Childhood obesity has nearly tripled in the past three decades, and by 2009, 17 percent of those 2-19 years of age were classified as obese. If actions against childhood obesity do not take place it is likely that today's children could be the first generation in over a century to experience a decline in life expectancy due to the epidemic of childhood obesity which leads to complications in later life.

25 Jul 2012

EC grants Marketing Authorisation to Boehringer Ingelheim and Lilly’s Jentadueto for diabetes

Boehringer Ingelheim and Eli Lilly and Company received Marketing Authorisation from the European Commission for Jentadueto which combines the DPP-4 inhibitor, linagliptin and metformin in a single tablet.

25 Jul 2012

Research provides real-world support for K-hler motivation gain effect

The inferior members of swimming or running relay teams - those athletes who fared poorest in individual races - showed the greatest gains when performing as part of a team, and those gains were even greater during final races as opposed to preliminary races.

25 Jul 2012

Aeterna Zentaris files request with FDA for Fast Track designation for AEZS-130

Aeterna Zentaris Inc. today announced that it has filed a request with the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for Fast Track designation for its oral ghrelin agonist, AEZS-130, as a diagnostic test for adult growth hormone deficiency (AGHD).

25 Jul 2012

Durata closes initial public offering of 8,625,000 shares of common stock

Durata Therapeutics today announced the closing of its initial public offering of 8,625,000 shares of common stock at a public offering price of $9.00 per share, before underwriting discounts, including 1,125,000 shares of common stock issued upon the exercise in full by the underwriters of their option to purchase additional shares at the public offering price, less the underwriting discount.

24 Jul 2012

New insights into physical demands of surfing

Want to train to become a competitive surfer? You'll need high endurance for paddling with bursts of high-intensity activity and short recovery times, according to a study in the August issue of The Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, official research journal of the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA).

24 Jul 2012

NYU Langone's CMC offers tips to avoid injuries during summer

The summer is officially here and more people are playing sports and exercising outdoors. Experts from NYU Langone's Center for Musculoskeletal Care (CMC) offer tips to avoid injuries during these warmer months.

24 Jul 2012

Eating raisins may provide the same workout boost as sports chews

New research published in the Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition suggests that eating raisins may provide the same workout boost as sports chews.

24 Jul 2012

New health professional roles emerge within the marketplace

This pair of stories from Kaiser Health News reports on new kinds of health professionals and the role they have within the health care continuum.

23 Jul 2012

First Edition: July 23, 2012

In this Kaiser Health News video, Greg Millett, a senior policy advisor in the Office of National AIDS Policy, tells Joanne Silberner that the president's National HIV/AIDS Strategy has improved coordination among federal agencies and that the 2010 health law will improve access to care for those living with HIV/AIDS.

23 Jul 2012

Low-calorie sweeteners play an important role for healthy, active people

The International Sweeteners Association (ISA) draws attention to a growing number of experts supporting the message that low calorie sweeteners play an important role for healthy, active people. Used in more than 6,000 products around the world, low calorie sweeteners can significantly reduce the energy density of foods and beverages when used as a substitute for sugar.

23 Jul 2012

Foundation Fighting Blindness grants US$125,000 to Oxford BioMedica for UshStat Phase I/IIa trial

Oxford BioMedica plc, the leading gene-based biopharmaceutical company, today announces that the US non-profit organisation, the Foundation Fighting Blindness (FFB), has granted an award of US$125,000 to the Company via its translational research arm, the Foundation Fighting Blindness Clinical Research Institute (FFBCRI) formerly known as the National Neurovision Research Institute (NNRI).

23 Jul 2012

Recent guidelines that recommend cholesterol tests for children fail to weigh health benefits

Recent guidelines recommending cholesterol tests for children fail to weigh health benefits against potential harms and costs, according to a new commentary authored by three physician-researchers at UCSF.

23 Jul 2012

Researchers turn inanimate silicone and living cardiac muscle cells into a jellyfish

Using recent advances in marine biomechanics, materials science, and tissue engineering, a team of researchers at Harvard University and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have turned inanimate silicone and living cardiac muscle cells into a freely swimming "jellyfish."

23 Jul 2012

Pfizer receives positive opinion from EMA CHMP for crizotinib to treat ALK-positive NSCLC

Pfizer announced today that the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has adopted a positive opinion recommending that crizotinib be granted conditional marketing authorization in the European Union (EU), for the treatment of adults with previously treated anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK)-positive advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

21 Jul 2012

FDA clears pSivida's IND for injectable sustained-release micro-insert to treat posterior uveitis

pSivida Corp., a leader in developing sustained release, drug delivery products for treatment of back-of-the-eye diseases, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared its Investigational New Drug (IND) application to treat posterior uveitis with pSivida's injectable sustained-release micro-insert.

20 Jul 2012

BrainStorm completes registered public offering of common stock

BrainStorm Cell Therapeutics Inc., an innovative developer of adult stem cell technologies and Central Nervous System (CNS) therapeutics, today announced that it completed a registered public offering of 19,818,972 shares of common stock at a price per share of $0.29 and warrants to purchase 14,864,229 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $0.29 per share, representing gross proceeds of $5,747,502.

20 Jul 2012

Geographic adjustments not optimal tools to tackle larger national policy goals

Changing the way that Medicare payments are adjusted to account for regional variations in the cost of providing care as recommended by a previous report from the Institute of Medicine would result in payment increases for some hospitals and practitioners and decreases for others, concludes the Phase II report from the IOM study.

19 Jul 2012

Pioneering technique that uses thermal imaging can help fight obesity

Scientists at The University of Nottingham believe they've found a way of fighting obesity — with a pioneering technique which uses thermal imaging. This heat-seeking technology is being used to trace our reserves of brown fat — the body's 'good fat' — which plays a key role in how quickly our body can burn calories as energy.

19 Jul 2012

Alogliptin adds benefits to diabetes monotherapy

Alogliptin is an effective add-on to glimepiride therapy for improving glycemic control in Japanese patients with Type 2 diabetes, show study findings.

18 Jul 2012

Exercise News and Research

Latest Exercise News and Research

Scientists use inactive, fat rats to study juvenile obesity

EC grants Marketing Authorisation to Boehringer Ingelheim and Lilly’s Jentadueto for diabetes

Research provides real-world support for K-hler motivation gain effect

Aeterna Zentaris files request with FDA for Fast Track designation for AEZS-130

Durata closes initial public offering of 8,625,000 shares of common stock

New insights into physical demands of surfing

NYU Langone's CMC offers tips to avoid injuries during summer

Eating raisins may provide the same workout boost as sports chews

New health professional roles emerge within the marketplace

First Edition: July 23, 2012

Low-calorie sweeteners play an important role for healthy, active people

Foundation Fighting Blindness grants US$125,000 to Oxford BioMedica for UshStat Phase I/IIa trial

Recent guidelines that recommend cholesterol tests for children fail to weigh health benefits

Researchers turn inanimate silicone and living cardiac muscle cells into a jellyfish

Pfizer receives positive opinion from EMA CHMP for crizotinib to treat ALK-positive NSCLC

FDA clears pSivida's IND for injectable sustained-release micro-insert to treat posterior uveitis

BrainStorm completes registered public offering of common stock

Geographic adjustments not optimal tools to tackle larger national policy goals

Pioneering technique that uses thermal imaging can help fight obesity

Alogliptin adds benefits to diabetes monotherapy

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Exercise News and Research

Latest Exercise News and Research

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How does norepinephrine influence anxiety-related behaviours?

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