The Bulging Costs Of America's Obesity Epidemic
Zero Hedge Mon, 30 Apr 2012 10:02 AM PDT
A month ago we chronicled what we consider one of the biggest problems for America's long-term viability in " No Country For Thin Men: 75% Of Americans To Be Obese By 2020 " which goes straight to the heart of the biggest shortfall in America's balance sheet: the net present value of future spending associated with Medicare and various other healthcare related programs, which will sadly only ... |
UT Southwestern Docs Make Metabolism Breakthrough
CBS Dallas - Fort Worth Mon, 30 Apr 2012 09:57 AM PDT
Some North Texas researchers believe they have found a way to control obesity by manipulating molecules in the heart. Researchers at UT Southwestern have demonstrated, for the first time, that the heart can regulate energy balance. |
Tim Layden: Baffert fortunate to be at another Derby after startling Dubai experience
Sports Illustrated Mon, 30 Apr 2012 09:49 AM PDT
Try though he might, Bob Baffert does not do somber particularly well. Bless his newly vibrant heart and familiar full head of thick, white hair, Baffert has for much too long been reaching into his emotional quiver and pulling up humor in all its forms (dark, light, gallows, irreverent, subtle, clunky ... pretty much everything but slapstick) to suddenly go dark and earnest on us, no matter how ... |
Human Hearts to Highlight Event
PRWeb Mon, 30 Apr 2012 09:46 AM PDT
A display of human hearts will be among the informative and educational exhibits showcased during Woman’s Heart Day, a free health and wellness extravaganza provided by Humility of Mary Health Partners. (PRWeb April 30, 2012) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/4/prweb9457308.htm |
Remote miracle: Robotics surgery becoming more popular in cardiac surgery
Plano Courier Mon, 30 Apr 2012 09:38 AM PDT
Photo courtesy Heart Hospital Baylor Plano - Debi Lemon (center) and her family were invited to be the “Legend of the Night†by the Heart Hospital and the Texas Legends on April 6. The marathon runner was honored for her survival of a very rare heart condition, which was corrected by robotic surgery at the Heart Hospital in Plano. |
US cholesterol levels drop over past decade
Food Navigator USA Mon, 30 Apr 2012 09:23 AM PDT
The new CDC data show that about 13.4% of US adults in 2009 to 2010 had high cholesterol â€" considered to be a major risk factor for heart disease â€" compared to 18.3% in 1999. That is a 27% drop, and comfortably beats the government’s target of reducing the number of people with high cholesterol to less than 17% of the population by 2010. Meanwhile, more than two-thirds of the population is ... |
Scientists uncover exciting lead into premature aging and heart disease
Science Daily Mon, 30 Apr 2012 09:23 AM PDT
Scientists have discovered that they can dramatically increase the life span of mice with progeria (premature aging disease) and heart disease (caused by Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy) by reducing levels of a protein called SUN1. Their findings provide an exciting lead into developing new methods to treat premature aging and heart disease. |
Stallion Dynaformer dies Sunday at 27
The Hornell Evening Tribune Mon, 30 Apr 2012 09:10 AM PDT
Dynaformer, the sire of Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro, has died at Three Chimneys Farm two weeks after having a heart attack in his stall. |
One dead, 100 injured when wind hits beer garden
Morris Daily Herald Mon, 30 Apr 2012 08:47 AM PDT
ST. LOUIS (MCT) â€" Strong, sudden winds blew over a tent Saturday afternoon outside Busch Stadium in St. Louis, injuring about 100 people, at least four critically. One man who was under the tent suffered a heart attack and has died, officials said. |
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