Obesity promotes prostate cancer by altering gene regulation
Prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers in men and early treatment is usually very successful. However, like other cancers, obesity increases the risk of aggressive… read more.
Prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers in men and early treatment is usually very successful. However, like other cancers, obesity increases the risk of aggressive… read more.
Metformin, a drug widely used to treat Type II diabetes, may help to prevent primary liver cancer
by Bruce Sylvester – Normal weight persons with weight concentrated in their belly run a higher death risk of CVD-related death than obese-only individuals, researchers reported at ESC.
by Zara Qadir – Patients who resume smoking after a stroke increase their risk of death by three-fold, according to research presented at ESC Congress 2012 by Professor… read more.
by Zara Qadir – BMI still offers a simple numeric measure of a person’s “thickness” or “thinness”. However, normal weight individuals who carry weight concentrated in their belly… read more.
by Zara Qadir – ESC Geoffrey Rose Lecture on Population Sciences. The recipient of the ‘ESC Geoffrey Rose Lecture on Population Sciences’ went to Rory Collins (pictured), who… read more.
by Bruce Sylvester – Obese persons who are metabolically healthy and fit have no more risk of developing or dying from cardiovascular disease or cancer than persons of… read more.
by Thomas R. Collins – Total pancreatectomy and auto islet transplantation among children can bring about good results, with many able to stay insulin-free and almost all of… read more.
by Thomas R. Collins – The blood pressure of the kidney transplant recipient at the University of Glasgow kept climbing. But it wasn’t without effort from physicians.
by Zara Qadir – Every year, the EAHP holds a best poster competition to encourage hospital pharmacists from all over Europe and beyond, to share best practices and… read more.
by Bruce Sylvester – taken from The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Researchers in a large, retrospective study report that daily use of low-dose aspirin is… read more.
by Bruce Sylvester – The combination of obesity and low vitamin D deficiency appears to cause a greater risk of insulin resistance than either factor alone, researchers reported… read more.
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