In WSJ.com: Health Blog - Posted 2 days ago

Ben Brewer, a family doctor in rural Illinois, is one of a nation of primary docs trying to manage chronic disease in a system set up for handling acu...

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In Diet Blog - Posted 4 days ago

It's easy to think of fat as just inert tissue - useless blubber just sitting there on our hips taking up space...way too much space. On the contrary...

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In Diabetes News from dLife.com - Posted 4 days ago

September 2, 2008 (Salk Institute) Body weight and fertility have long known to be related to each other women who are too thin, for example, ...

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In Diabetes News from dLife.com - Posted 4 days ago

September 2, 2008 (EurekAlert) - A report in the September Cell Metabolism, a publication of Cell Press, offers new evidence to explain why those who...

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In Daily Diabetic - Posted 6 days ago

Endocrinologists at the University at Buffalo have found that young type-2 diabetic men have significantly low levels of testosterone.Such findings fo...

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In WSJ.com: Health Blog - Posted 1 week ago

What good is screening people for health risks, if those at risk don t do anything about it? That s the rationale that pushed Alabama to start cha...

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In Disease Proof - Posted 1 week ago

Alright, obesity is bad that's common knowledge but new research in Diabetes claims that fat people actually have sick fat cells that make i...

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In Addiction and Recovery News - Posted 1 week ago

Part of me wishes I could be more enthusiastic about this. They all seem like good points to make and I'm sure that they carefully developed using res...

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In FitSugar - Healthy, happy you. - Posted 1 week ago

New reports are claiming that by January 2010, state employees in Alabama will be charged $25 per month for insurance (that's normally free to state w...

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In Fitness & Health with Dr. Gabe Mirkin - Posted 1 week ago

Researchers at the University of Michigan report that not all people who are fat are at high risk for heart attacks (Archives of Internal Medicine, Au...

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