Sep
2
More Patients Research Their Own Diseases, Seek To Manage Chronic Conditions
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News outlets report on how the delivery of health care is being changed by empowered patients. USA Today: “In the past, most patients placed their entire trust in the hands of their physician. Your doc said you needed a certain medical test, you got it. Not so much anymore. Though some doctors find the newer ‘empowered’ patients taxing, others …
Jul
30
Public Health Minister for England, Anne Milton, told the BBC this week that doctors and healthcare professionals should tell people they are ‘fat’ rather than ‘obese’ as the term ‘fat’, in her view, may better motivate them to lose weight. She added that people should take ‘personal responsibility’ for their way of life…
Jul
14
Rapid weight loss best way to slim down: studies (AFP)
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AFP - Losing a lot of weight at once is the best way to permanently slim down, studies presented at Stockholm’s International Congress on Obesity showed, going against accepted wisdom even among doctors.
Jul
12
AP - Dieters, doctors and investors get their first extensive look at the first of a trio of new weight loss drugs this week. The hope is that the new drugs can succeed where many others have failed: delivering significant weight loss without risky side effects.
Jun
17
Pro-Eating Disorder Sites Abound on the Internet (HealthDay)
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HealthDay - THURSDAY, June 17 (HealthDay News) — They’re out there on the
Web: Sites that offer tips to successful purging or water-only fasts;
others that list methods of hiding rapid weight loss from parents and
doctors.
Jun
17
Pro-Eating Disorder Sites Abound on the Internet (HealthDay)
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HealthDay - THURSDAY, June 17 (HealthDay News) — They’re out there on the
Web: Sites that offer tips to successful purging or water-only fasts;
others that list methods of hiding rapid weight loss from parents and
doctors.
Jun
2
Members of the British Medical Association (BMA) and Irish Medical Organisation (IMO) will meet with representatives of the European Parliament to urge policy makers to work together to tackle the rise in obesity levels…
May
6
Agency For Healthcare Research And Quality News And Numbers: The Scale Has Barely Moved For Healthy Eating Advice From Doctors
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Only about half of obese adult Americans were advised by their doctors to cut down on fatty foods in 2006, and the rate had not significantly changed since 2002, according to the latest News and Numbers from the Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research…
May
4
Doctor Still Not Giving Much Healthy Eating Advice To Their Adult Obese Patients
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Only about half of obese adult Americans were advised by their doctors to cut down on fatty foods in 2006, and the rate had not significantly changed since 2002, according to the latest News and Numbers from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality…
May
3
Adverse Outcomes Associated With Obesity And More Applicable Measures Of Obesity
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Pay-for-performance reimbursement models may create unintended financial incentives for doctors to discriminate against obese patients, measuring a patient’s waist circumference may be more effective in predicting surgical outcomes than the more traditional body mass index measure, and childhood obesity doubles the risk of developing colon cancer, according to data being presen…