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Saturday can be the worst enemy for our waistlines and those who exercise for weight loss, according to researchers at Washington University School of medicine in St. Louis. They found that study subjects on strict diet and exercise programs tend to lose weight more slowly than expected because they eat more on weekends than during the week. The investigators report their findings in the advance online publication of the journal Obesity.read more

A little shove from the workplace may actually be the ticket to weight loss, a new review of studies from US show.According to Michael Benedict, MD, and colleagues at UC, employer-based programs for weight loss are modestly effective at helping workers take off extra pounds. 'Worksite-based programs do tend to result in weight loss for the people that participate in them,' says Benedict, co-author of the study and researcher in the department of internal medicine. The review appears in the July-August issue of the American Journal of health Promotion.read more

A survey conducted by the World health Organization (WHO) research consortium found that the United States had among the highest lifetime rates of tobacco and alcohol use and led in the proportion of participants reporting cannabis (marijuana) or cocaine use at least once during their lifetime. The study, led by Dr. Louisa Degenhardt of the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia and colleagues, looked at patterns in the use of alcohol, tobacco, cannabis and cocaine in 17 countries representing all six WHO regions (the Americas, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Oceania). The study, funded in part by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is published in the July 1, 2008 issue of the open access journal 'PLoS medicine'.

1. Benefits of Tight Glucose Control Remain Uncertain for Older Diabetics In a computer modeling study, researchers set out to assess the effects of comorbid illnesses and functional status on the expected benefits of intensive glucose control.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration proposed major revisions to the physician labeling for prescription drugs (including biological products) to provide better information about the effects of medicines used during pregnancy and breast-feeding.

Cancer starts when key cellular signals run amok, driving uncontrolled cell growth. But scientists at the Stanford University School of medicine report that lowering levels of one cancer signal under a specific threshold reverses this process in mice, returning tumor cells to their normal, healthy state. The finding could help target cancer chemotherapy to tumors while minimizing side effects for the body's healthy cells.

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of medicine and collaborators are using minute, naturally occurring proteins called zinc fingers to engineer T cells to one day treat AIDS in humans.

(Washington University School of Medicine) Saturday can be the worst enemy for our waistlines, according to researchers at the School of medicine. They found that study subjects on strict diet and exercise programs tend to lose weight more slowly than expected because they eat more on weekends than during the week.

In a major survey of 17 countries, it was found that the United States has the highest levels of cocaine and cannabis use. These results, based on the World health Organization's (WHO) Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI) was released on June 30, 2008 in the open access journal PLoS medicine.

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) By delivering vaccine via DNA constructed to build antigens against flu, along with a minute electric pulse, researchers have immunized experimental animals against various strains of the virus. This approach could allow for the build up of vaccine reserves that could be easily and effectively dispensed in case of an epidemic.