Fitness and Wellness Business Week

Rutgers State University - Limiting potentially harmful nutrients in developing countries reviewed

Sahlgrenska University Hospital - Reports add new data to obesity and diabetes research

Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg - GH treatment reduces abdominal visceral fat in postmenopausal women

Schneider Children's Hospital - Consensus statement on childhood obesity released

Shaheed Beheshti Univ Med Sci & Hlth Sci, Tehran -  M. gastri cause of disseminated infection in children of same family

Southampton General Hospital - Laparoscopic renal biopsy useful in obese children

St. Marys Hospital - Researchers' data advance metabolic syndrome research

Syracuse University - Postmenopausal obese women with diabetes must exercise to lose visceral fat

Syrrx Inc. - Crystal structure provides insights into glucocorticoid interconversion

Temple University - Thiazolidinediones upregulate fatty acid uptake in adipose tissue

The Fitness Challenge - Reality board game for wannabe exercisers to help Floridians get and stay fit

Tulane University - Obesity common among Chinese adults

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Researchers detail new studies and findings in the area of childhood obesity

U.S. National Institutes of Health - Studies describe new findings in obesity pathogenesis research

UCLA Center for Health Policy Research - Policy brief reports many California teens do not get regular physical exercise

Umea University - Breakthrough findings link obesity to diabetes

Umea University Hospital - Reports describe recent advances in obesity pathogenesis research

Univ. of California, Los Angeles - Obesity confers survival advantage in dialysis patients

Univ. of California, Los Angeles - Researchers' work adds to diabetes pathogenesis body of knowledge

Univ. of California, San Francisco - Inhibition of triglyceride synthesis is treatment strategy for obesity

Univ. of California, San Francisco - Nuclear hormone receptor controls fat consumption in C. elegans

Univ. of Texas, Austin - Certain weight control behaviors may precipitate obesity among adolescent girls

Universidad Complutense de Madrid - 5-Fluorouracil-loaded poly(epsilon-caprolactone) microspheres developed

University College London - Reports describe recent advances in metabolic syndrome research

University Hospital Antwerp - Drug can reduce body weight and cardiovascular risk factors in obese people

University of Colorado Health Sciences Center - Researchers report details of new studies and findings in the area of osteoporosis

University of Edinburgh - Regeneration of cortisol increased in adipose tissue in obesity

University of Fribourg - Findings in obesity pathogenesis provide new insights

University of Fribourg - Link between catch-up growth and later metabolic syndrome explored

University of Granada - Improvement in physical fitness aids anti-aging efforts

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign - Protein quantity at levels above RDA improves adult weight loss

University of Kuopio - Common adiponectin polymorphisms predict development of type 2 diabetes

University of Pennsylvania - Corepressors selectively control transcriptional activity of PPAR-gamma

University of Pittsburgh - Location of body fat associated with cardiovascular risk in older men, women

University of Tennessee - Women with pedometers step up exercise levels

University of Tennessee, Memphis - Insulin's stimulation of VEGF promotes angiogenesis and fat accumulation

University of Texas - Recent findings in diabetes therapy provide new insights

University of Tokyo - Expression of DGAT2 in white adipose tissue regulated by leptin action

Washington University, St. Louis - Fat may affect electrical impulses in brain, heart

Yale University - Hepatic steatosis and hyperglycemia reversed by weight loss

Yale University - Obesity and insomnia linked by excitability of brain cells

Yonsei University - Findings in diabetes therapy provide new insights