Scientists have advanced a method that allowed them to single out a marine microorganism and map its genome even though the organism made up less than 10 percent of a water sample teeming with many millions of individuals from dozens of identifiable gr…

In 2008, roughly 14.3 million Americans were taking antipsychotics for behavioral disorders, making them among the most prescribed drugs in the US. Almost all of these medications are known to cause metabolic side effects such as obesity and diabetes. …

An expert Roundtable Discussion in the current issue of Childhood Obesity, a peer-reviewed journal published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., debates the pros and cons of routine BMI screening in the school setting, discusses the most recent data, and explor…

Researchers from the UK determined that preoperative cardiopulmonary exercise testing is a specific predictor of 90-day survival following liver transplantation. Study results available in the February issue of Liver Transplantation, a journal publishe…

Doctors at Nationwide Children’s Hospital who perform weight loss surgery on adolescents took a look at their patient population in a retrospective study published in the January 2012 print edition of Pediatric Blood & Cancer. They found that their pat…

One of the largest studies to investigate lumbar spine disc degeneration found that adults who are overweight or obese were significantly more likely to have disc degeneration than those with a normal body mass index. Details of this study now appear …

Researchers led by William E. Goldman, Ph.D. of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine show that the plague bacteria transform the lungs from a nasty place for microbes into a playground for them to flourish.

A new study suggests that obesity practices and beliefs differ by physician BMI.

Scientists from Arizona State University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences show that insect nutrition and agricultural land management practices may partially explain modern day locust outbreaks.

New research reveals a fascinating and unexpected molecular partnership within the brain neurons that regulate appetite. The study, published by Cell Press in the Jan. 26 issue of the journal Neuron, resolves a paradox regarding a receptor without its …