Learn about the endocannabinoid systems role in regulating metabolism and body weight as well as new behavioral strategies and pharmacotherapy for achieving weight loss.
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Louis J. Aronne, MD, FACP discusses the pharmacologic management of obesity, stressing the need for a variety of treatments to manage obesity effectively.
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Thomas A. Wadden, PhD, introduces the symposium on New Advances in the Management of Obesity: Integrating Lifestyle Modification and Pharmacotherapy with a brief overview.
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James O. Hill, PhD, discusses the challenges of weight loss maintenance. What behaviors should patients change and how do we sustain that change?
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Stephen C. Woods, PhD, explores the endocannabinoid system, which has emerged over the last decade as a potentially important target for pharmacotherapy for treating obesity in metabolic disorders.
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Learn about the endocannabinoid systems role in regulating metabolism and body weight as well as new behavioral strategies and pharmacotherapy for achieving weight loss.
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A study shows that short duration of sleep is associated with incident cardiovascular risk and that the combination of the riser pattern and short duration of sleep predicts cardiovascular disease. Medscape Medical News
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Unlike some states, Hawaii has not found “the backbone to say ‘no thanks’” to federal funding for abstinence-only education, a Honolulu Star Bulletin editorial says.
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(Robin Leedy & Associates, Inc.) It was a winding path John O’Keefe followed to one of the most dramatic discoveries about the brain and, on Nov. 16, his success will lead him to the podium at the Society for Neuroscience’s Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, where he will receive the $500,000 Gruber Foundation Neuroscience Prize [...]
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(University of Pittsburgh) The painstaking process of detecting toxic species of platinum and palladium mixed in with the form of platinum essential to certain pharmaceuticals could be reduced to one simple step, University of Pittsburgh researchers report in the Nov. 14 online edition of the Journal of the American Chemical Society.
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