Obesity Treatment Paradigms Should Target Those at Risk for Diabetes

Obesity treatment paradigms should target those at risk for diabetes

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“With effective options in all of these three treatment modalities, we can now evolve rational data-driven models of care that treat obesity as a medical illness,” W. Timothy Garvey, MD, professor and chair in the department of nutrition sciences at …
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Verastem Reports First Quarter 2013 Financial and Corporate Results

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BUSINESS WIRE)–Verastem, Inc., (NASDAQ: VSTM) focused on discovering and developing drugs to treat cancer by the targeted killing of cancer stem cells, today reported financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2013, and also commented on …
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Medical Marijuana Update

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The DEA claims there are no "adequate and well-controlled studies" that show cannabis has medical use, despite the many clinical trials and peer-reviewed scientific studies that show cannabis to be a safe and effective medicine for treating a wide …
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