Latest Press Release on obesity

Healthy Choices for Healthy Children Legislation Introduced to Fight Childhood Obesity in Ohio
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Nov. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- A bi-partisan effort to decrease and prevent childhood obesity was introduced today in the Ohio Senate and Ohio House of Representatives, with the strong support of the Healthy Choices for Healthy Children coalition. The Healthy Choices for Healt...

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San Diego Firm Offers Free Seminar on Becoming a Professional Health Coach
New specialty offers entrepreneurs and health care practitioners great opportunity treating and preventing obesity and weight-related diseases./I/P PSan Diego, CA (PRWEB) November 18, 2009 -- In today's depressed economy in which nearly one in 10 Americans is unemployed and revenues for...

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American Heart Association Joins Efforts to Introduce Healthy Choices for Healthy Children Legislation
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Nov. 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Heart Association is joining efforts to decrease and prevent childhood obesity through legislation that is being introduced today in the Ohio Senate and Ohio House of Representatives. The Healthy Choices for Healthy Children le...

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The Canadian Obesity Network and mdBriefCase Inc.: Online Education Partnership to Train Canadian Health Providers on Obesity Treatment, Prevention
TORONTO, ONTARIO -- 11/16/09 -- The Canadian Obesity Network- Reseau canadien en obesite (CON-RCO) and mdBriefCase Inc. are pleased to announce a new partnership to provide on-line education and support for Canadian healthcare professionals involve..

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The Blue Cross and Blue Shield Companies to Tackle Childhood Obesity and Diabetes With Innovative Physician Toolkit
WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) has launched a new Pediatric Obesity and Diabetes Prevention Pilot Program in five states in an effort to help reduce childhood obesity and prevent future cases of diabetes. ...

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Obesity Rates Will Continue to Increase, Drive Health Care Costs in New Jersey in Next Decade, According to New Study
Obesity-Attributable Health Spending to Reach $1,318 per Person by 2018 RIVERTON, N.J., Nov. 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new report released today based on ...

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Marcadia Biotech Makes Lead Gift to Establish World-Class Watanabe Biotech Lecture Series at Indiana University
A recognized global leader in biotech and the life sciences, Gus Watanabe, MD was a co-founder and chairman of Marcadia Biotech, a bio-pharmaceutical company focused on product development to treat diabetes and obesity, until his death earlier in 2009. To advance and accelerate Watanabe's sci...

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King Teaches NO Fitness Equipment Needed Approach in National Fight Against Obesity
The US statistics are staggering…nearly two out of every three people are overweight in this country. As the obesity rate continues to climb, economic hardships become a barrier for those who are trying to implement healthy lifestyle changes and costly gym memberships are no longer an ...

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Sirona Biochem Says New Results From Big Pharma Shows Why SGLT2 Sugar Blockers Are a Major Opportunity in Fighting Diabetes
VANCOUVER, BC -- 11/17/09 -- Sirona Biochem Corp. (TSX-V: SBM), an emerging biotech company focused on diabetes and obesity drug development, says the latest results from a clinical trial with a competitor's SGLT Inhibitor demonstrates the major op..

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New Data Shows Obesity Costs Will Grow to $344 Billion by 2018
As Congress Seeks to Lower Health Care Costs, New Report Finds Obesity Costs Will Quadruple Over the Next Decade Without Action WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new

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NACDD Applauds CDC Report for Providing First-Ever County-Level Snapshots of U.S. Obesity Rates
CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report Also Updates Diabetes County-Level Estimates. The National Association of Chronic Disease Directors (NACDD) applauds the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for releasing estimates that provide the first county-level snapshots of obesity...

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EnteroMedics Receives Notice of NASDAQ Listing Deficiencies
ST. PAUL, Minn. - EnteroMedics Inc. (NASDAQ: ETRM), the developer of medical devices using neuroblocking technology to treat obesity and other gastrointestinal disorders, announced today that on November 13, 2009 it received two Nasdaq Staff Deficiency Letters indicating that, for 30 consecu

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