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Reports say that the world's heaviest man Manuel Uribe has recorded some success with losing weight with Zone Diet and is even planning to get married. Zone Diet creator Dr. Barry sears and his team of doctors give Manuel Uribea new lease on life.In June 2008 the Zone Diet reported more on Manuel Uribe, who then was the world's fattest man, as he was preparing for his birthday. Here is that report below.read more

The tick-tock of your biological clock may have just gotten a little louder. The number of genes under control of the biological clock in a much-studied model organism is dramatically higher than previously reported. The new study implies that the clock may be much more important in living things than suspected only a few years ago.

The response to insulin-like growth factor 1 in breast cancer cells predicts an aggressive tumor that is less likely to respond to treatment, said researchers at Baylor College of Medicine in a report that ...

About 75-90% of patients with rheumatoid arthritis improve during pregnancy, according to previous reports. But how have the new rheumatoid arthritis treatments made available during the last decade affected this...

The Democrat and Chronicle reports today that a laptop has been stolen from the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID) that contains 'the personal information of applicants to NTID...

MONTREAL, Quebec (AP) -- A provincial health official says that an unusually high number of people have fallen ill with salmonella food poisoning across Quebec....

For the first time, researchers have described hour-by-hour changes in the amount of amyloid beta, a protein that is believed to play a key role in Alzheimer's disease, in the human brain. A collaborative team of scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the University of Milan report their results in Science.

CD38 is a type II glycoprotein that acts both as a bifunctional enzyme, responsible for the synthesis and hydrolysis of cyclic ADP-ribose, and as a signal-transducing surface receptor. Although CD38 was originally described as a plasma membrane molecule, several reports indicate that CD38 is expressed in the nucleus, even in cells known to be CD38 surface-negative. In this study, firstly we investigated the presence of nuclear CD38 by immunofluorescence and confocal microscopy using a panel of hematopoietic cell lines that exhibit different levels of CD38 plasma membrane expression. Our second aim was to explore the relationship between the nuclear and plasma membrane forms of CD38 in human cell lines which represent discrete early maturation stages of the human lymphoid and myeloid compartments. Our results indicate that CD38 is constitutively present in the nucleus of cells belonging to distinct lineages. Furthermore, nuclear CD38 appears to be independent of the plasma membrane pool

The selection of students for entry to medical schools in Australia is a high-stakes contest. A recent study reported in the latest issue of the Medical Journal of Australia showed that more than half the applicants trying to gain a place at an Australian medical school had attended coaching, and some had repeated selection tests, in order to boost their chances of admission.

Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: AMLN) and Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) in a conference call today provided context and additional information regarding the August 18, 2008 U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) update to a prior alert for BYETTA(R) (exenatide) injection referencing pancreatitis. The companies were aware of the pancreatitis cases referenced in the alert, as well as others, and previously reported these cases to the FDA.