Along with the increased prevalence of obesity, Americans have seen a coincident surge in the incidence of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). While there are numerous pharmaceutical treatments available, weight loss is seen as perhaps the most effective means of both preventing and treating the condition. As anyone who has tried to shed even a few pounds knows well, substantial weight loss is often difficult to attain and maintain.

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Negative messages about children s vaccines are more likely to be spread on Twitter than positive messages, according to research led by Marcel Salathé, an assistant professor of biology at Penn State University.

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One scientist calls it the dark side of open access, the move to make scholarly articles more accessible. The New York Times reports on how there s a proliferation of online journals that will print seemingly anything for a fee, and researchers warn that non experts using the Internet for research will have trouble distinguishing credible research from junk.

If there is one area that has been clouded by confusion in recent years, it is the detection and treatment of prostate cancer.

In the United States, 66 percent of adults are categorized as either overweight or obese a number is three times what it was in 1980. Elevated body mass index, an estimate of body fatness based on height and weight, has long been considered a risk factor for coronary heart disease, stroke, and cancers of the large intestine, kidney, uterus, and breast in postmenopausal women. Furthermore, 20 percent of adults aged 20 years or older have metabolic syndrome, defined by a combination of obesity, hypertension, dyslipidemia, and insulin resistance.

If you want your children to eat less, you may want to consider giving them smaller plates. Researchers discovered that children given larger plates were more likely to serve themselves larger portions, which may lead to weight gain.

In the "nothing new under the sun" department, Bendectin - now called Diclegis - a drug that was long ago used to treat morning sickness, is going back on pharmacy shelves after a 30 year absence.

Although medical guidelines have changed, most physicians opt for the 'better safe than sorry' approach when it comes to cervical cancer screenings among their patients, according to a government survey.

Fatty deposits in arteries (atheroma) account for the most deaths in America, as well as in the rest of the western world. The most common manifestation of atheroma is coronary artery disease (CAD), the cause of heart attacks and angina. But when such deposits occur in the main neck arteries, the carotids, the result is all too often a stroke. Strokes can be transient or minor but they also commonly cripple, disable, or kill. In fact, stroke is the 4th leading cause of death in the U.S., accounting for 130,000 in 2010.