Weight Loss Surgery May Help Less Severely Obese
(HealthDay)
Weight Loss Surgery May Help Less Severely Obese
(HealthDay)
HealthDay - FRIDAY, Dec. 21 (HealthDay News) –The morbidly obese may not be
the only people who should be eligible for bariatric surgery to lose
weight, U.S. researchers report.
AP - Talk about an extreme makeover: Scientists have transformed one type of cell into another in living mice, a big step toward the goal of growing replacement tissues to treat a variety of diseases.
AP - New data show New York City residents are contracting the virus that causes AIDS at three times the national rate.
AP - A Palestinian couple locked their disabled son and daughter away for decades out of fear they would ruin the marriage prospects of a healthy child if discovered, police said Wednesday.
AP - Government regulators on Wednesday cleared the way for broader use of a blood test that can spare heart transplant patients the ordeal of repeated biopsies to check if their bodies are rejecting the new organ.