GfK Healthcares Roper Global Diabetes Programme, the definitive global perspective on diabetes, announced today the launch of its enhanced 2009/2010 Western Europe Patient Study. Offering a holistic perspective of the diabetes patient across five European countries, with robust insights into patients attitudes and behaviors towards treatments, testing and lifestyles, the study now makes available to [...]

A small molecule earlier found to have both antifat and anticancer abilities works as a literal turnoff for fatmaking genes, according to a new report in the August 28th issue of the journal Chemistry and Biology, a Cell Press journal.
The chemical blocks a well known master controller of fat synthesis, a transcription factor known as [...]

Four years ago, Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans and its health care system. CNNs Dr. Sanjay Gupta reports on health care reforms in the city since Katrina “Out of the woodwork, in unorthodox places, the community is responding.” CNN reports on the Lower Ninth Ward Health Clinic, which was started by two former nurses [...]

“To be sure, no group is doing well under our network of private insurers,” but “women fare particularly badly in terms of health, being more likely than men to leave a prescription unfilled; forgo seeing a needed specialist; and skip a medical test, treatment or followup,” author Sharon Lerner writes in an opinion piece in [...]

Weight Watchers is the worlds largest support group, with more than 1.5 million members worldwide. What makes overweight consumers turn to this organization for help? A new study in the Journal of Consumer Research says dieters are attracted to its combination of spirituality and therapy.
Authors Risto Moisio (California State University, Long Beach) and Mariam Beruchashvili [...]

The Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS), a research institute under the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), will host the fourth Asian epigenomics conference on 24th and 25th August 2009. The twoday epigenomics conference, which is the first to be held in Singapore, will take place at Biopolis, the nations life sciences hub.
The [...]

A hysterectomy is an operation to take out the uterus (womb), and sometimes the cervix and other reproductive organs as well. When surgery does not involve removing the cervix, it may be referred to as a subtotal hysterectomy. A radical hysterectomy involves the surgical removal of the uterus, ovaries, cervix, oviducts, lymph nodes and lymph [...]

More than 1 million Kenyans living in prolonged drought conditions are not getting the food aid they need, Gabrielle Menezes, a spokeswoman for the U.N.s World Food Program (WFP), said recently, the Associated Press reports. She said WFP already provides emergency food aid to about 2.5 million people in Kenya, but another 1.3 million still [...]

Catalent Pharma Solutions announces the recent successful completion of the first FDA general cGMP audit and preapproval inspection of its Buenos Aires, Argentina pharmaceutical softgel facility, with no reported observations on FDA Form 483. Catalent has been operating in Argentina since 1953 serving local and regional pharmaceutical and consumer health markets, and is completing a [...]

Using advanced brain imaging and genomics technologies, an international team of researchers coled by Scripps Research Institute scientists has shown for the first time that natural variations in a specific gene influence brain structure. By establishing this link, the researchers have opened the door to a range of potential research efforts that could reveal gene [...]