AFP reports here at Yahoo News: PARIS - Designers of anti-obesity drugs have suffered three major setbacks, but the potential reward from treating the world’s fat epidemic is so great that their quest is unlikely to be deterred.
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HealthDay reports here at Yahoo news: Everyone knows smoking and being obese is not healthy for you, but now a new study shows the odds of dying early are highest among obese smokers.
BBC news reports here: Scientists say they have worked out the complete genetic blueprint of a cancer for the first time.
CNN reports here: “The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year or even one term, but America — I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there. I promise you — we as a people will get there,” Obama said in Chicago, Illinois, before an estimated crowd of up to 240,000 people.
HealthDay reports here at Yahoo News: - An antibody that breaks down and suppresses an appetite stimulant produced by the human body has been discovered.
Thirteen-year-old Lukas Moeller has Down syndrome. His father is a doctor who came to Australia from Germany to help fill a shortage of physicians in rural communities. CNN reports here: But now Australia has rejected Dr. Bernhard Moeller’s application for residency, saying Lukas does not meet the “health requirement” and would pose a burden on taxpayers for his medical care, education and other services.
AP reports here at Yahoo News: ATLANTA - The nation’s obesity epidemic is exacting a heavy toll: The rate of new diabetes cases nearly doubled in the United States in the past 10 years, the government said Thursday. The highest rates were in the South, according to the first state-by-state review of new diagnoses.
Running was classed as vigorous exercise, BBC News reports here: Vigorous exercise seems to protect against the development of breast cancer in normal-weight postmenopausal women, US research shows.