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News, opinions and meeting coverage in endocrinology.

<乌鸦传媒>Bariatric Surgery Improves Metabolic Syndrome for PCOS

Small cohort with obesity and PCOS saw improvement

<乌鸦传媒>Obesity Is a Chronic Disease, Say New Guidelines

AACE's evidence-based guidelines aims to help physicians

<乌鸦传媒>Obesity Guidelines Headline AACE 2016

First such guidelines in 25 year history

<乌鸦传媒>BMI 27: The New Normal?

Danish study puts lowest mortality risk at BMI level in 'unhealthy' range

<乌鸦传媒>CardioBrief: Diet Drug Loses Another Cardiovascular Outcomes Trial

More chaos over the weight loss drug Contrave

<乌鸦传媒>Early, Personalized Vit D Needed After Bariatric Surgery

Most patients go into surgery malnourished

<乌鸦传媒>Saxagliptin, Alogliptin Linked to Heart Failure, FDA Warns

Decision comes 1 year after FDA advisory committee vote

<乌鸦传媒>Obesity Linked to Delayed Puberty in Boys

But being overweight tied with earlier pubertal development

<乌鸦传媒>Phosphorus Pills Bring Weight Loss in Trial

Waist size shrinks more than an inch after 12 weeks

<乌鸦传媒>Early Weight Loss With Saxenda Predicts More

Conversely, initial nonresponse is typically maintained

<乌鸦传媒>Bariatric Embolization Shows Promise for Weight Loss

Small group of morbidly obese patients shed major pounds

<乌鸦传媒>Obesity Groups Say States Denying Bariatric Surgery Violate ACA

Discrimination complaint calls on HHS to require bariatric surgery coverage

<乌鸦传媒>Weight-Loss Surgery a Safe Option for Mildly Obese With T2D

Patients faced a 4.2% complication rate in 30 days

<乌鸦传媒>FDA Presses Pause on Novel Testosterone Product

Gives FDA chance to "back away from the circus," says sponsor's CEO

<乌鸦传媒>NHANES Data: Pseudoscience?

Data used to form guidelines 'inadmissible' and are wildly inaccurate, says researcher.

<乌鸦传媒>Lifestyle Medicine: Dreaming of the Gym-Clinic Hybrid

Nadolsky brothers interview med student who wants to open combined gym and clinic practice

<乌鸦传媒>Does This Make Me Fat, Or Is It My Genes?

A pair of married Harvard docs debate the causes of the obesity epidemic

<乌鸦传媒>GI Events Do Not Explain Weight Loss With Saxenda

No difference in weight loss between patients who had nausea and vomiting with diet drug, and those who didn't.

<乌鸦传媒>Op-Ed: Penn Jillette's Weight Loss Wasn't Magic

The magician recently lost 105 pounds, but he may not be a role model.

<乌鸦传媒>Slippery Slope: Diet Drugs No Help for Heart

In another edition of the Slippery Slope series examining use of surrogate endpoints in drug approvals, 乌鸦传媒 and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel find diet drugs are approved without solid evidence of benefits, but with hints of harm.

<乌鸦传媒>Slippery Slope: $$ in, Diet Drugs Out, How Five Drugs Came to Market

Makers of diet drugs spent more than $60 million on payments to doctors, organized medicine, and lobbyists to get their drugs approved.

<乌鸦传媒>What the Evidence Really Says About PUFAs

Another look at the supposed benefits of corn oil.

<乌鸦传媒>Excerpt From 'The Secret Language of Doctors'

ED doc Brian Goldman investigates slang to "crack code of hospital culture."

<乌鸦传媒>Knee Surgery Linked to Higher OA Risk

Can meniscus repairs actually worsen joint damage?

<乌鸦传媒>Are There Fewer 'Tasty' Meals After Bariatric Surgery?

Taste buds may be diminished by weight-loss surgery.

<乌鸦传媒>Two Gastric Balloons May Be Better than One

A dual-balloon intragastric device helped patients shed more pounds.

<乌鸦传媒>Friday Feedback: Zero-Tolerance Employment Smoking Bans?

Should hospitals, schools, and companies refuse to hire smokers for teachers and healthcare providers?

<乌鸦传媒>Obesity, T2D May Alter Gut Bacteria

CHICAGO -- The portfolio of gut bacteria in patients with obesity and type 2 diabetes may look different from that of healthy people, researchers reported here.

<乌鸦传媒>Victoza Accused of Causing Pancreatitis

The watchdog group Public Citizen has conducted its own analysis of FDA adverse event reports and concluded that the type 2 diabetes drug liraglutide(Victoza) likely causes pancreatitis, the group said.

<乌鸦传媒>'Bulletproof' Coffee May Hike Lipids

LAS VEGAS -- Spiking coffee with butter and coconut oil -- a concoction known as "bulletproof coffee" -- may be boosting hyperlipidemia in otherwise healthy patients, researchers said here.

<乌鸦传媒>'Thyroid' Issues May Really Be Hypothalamic

LAS VEGAS -- Obese patients who continue to have "thyroid symptoms" even when their levels are normalized may have a hypothalamic dysfunction, researchers reported here.

<乌鸦传媒>Dieting Shrinks Liver, Eases Gall Bladder Surgery

CHICAGO -- A 2-week-long restrictive diet appears to shrink obese patients鈥� livers enough to make gall bladder laparoscopic surgery quicker and easier, researchers reported here.

<乌鸦传媒>Forget Glucometers, Use Voodoo Dolls Instead: That's Improbable!

A weekly report from our friends at Improbable Research.

<乌鸦传媒>Small, Frequent Meals Don't Rev Metabolism

Dieters are often told to eat small, frequent meals instead of two or three bigger meals a day to shed extra pounds, but eating this way does not boost metabolism and may increase cardiovascular disease risk, researchers found.

<乌鸦传媒>Higher BMI May Be Better for Older Adults

Adults over 65 at the high end of the healthy body mass index range were at lower risk of mortality, and those at the low end were at highest risk, according to a recent meta-analysis.

<乌鸦传媒>Colonoscopies: The Longer the Better

Polyp and adenoma detection rates were highest when the colonoscopy withdrawal time was 9 minutes long, near the upper limit of the recommended 6 to 10 minutes withdrawal time, researchers found.

<乌鸦传媒>Gastric Artery Embolization Tied to Weight Loss

CHICAGO -- Embolization of the left gastric artery was associated with significant weight loss compared with that seen in patients who underwent a control procedure, researchers found.

<乌鸦传媒>Surgery Beats Medical Tx for Diabetes 'Cure'

ATLANTA -- Bariatric surgery's beneficial effects for type 2 diabetes were significantly greater than even the most rigorous medical and lifestyle interventions, a researcher said here.

<乌鸦传媒>Combo Drug Qsymia Tops for Weight Loss

Overweight people who took the phentermine/topiramate combination diet drug Qsymia lost more weight than people taking a placebo or either drug alone in an industry-funded study.

<乌鸦传媒>Xenical Helps PCOS Patients Slim Down

Lifestyle changes plus the weight-loss drug orlistat (Xenical) helped women with polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) shed pounds, leading to metabolic improvements, researchers found.

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