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Low-Calorie Diet Linked to Improved Chemo Response in Leukemia

04/07/2021 acute leukemia, acute lymphoblastic leukemia, adherence, adherence to medication issues for patients, adolescent medicine, blood, chemotherapy, child, childhood, childhood cancer, children, exercise, Hematologic Malignancies, Hematology, Kids, Leukemia, muscular atrophie, muscular atrophy, neoadjuvant, Nutrition, nutritional support, obese, obesity, Pediatrics, Physical Activity, remission, Toxicology, weight gain

Children and adolescents with leukemia who were placed on a restrictive diet and exercise regimen concurrent with starting chemotherapy showed

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Servier and French Drug Safety Agency Found Guilty on Diet Drug

04/03/2021 adverse effects, crime, criminal, drug/treatment safety, Ethics, fraud, fraudulent, obese, obesity, patient safety, Side Effects, weight loss

More than 10 years after the withdrawal of the weight loss drug Mediator (benfluorex) from the market in France, the

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No increase in colorectal cancer after obesity surgery

03/28/2021 after, Cancer, colorectal, In, increase, no, obesity, surgery

Colorectal cancer risk does not rise after bariatric surgery, a study from the University of Gothenburg shows. This finding is

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How to live longer: Eating slower may boost your longevity – here’s why

03/19/2021 autoplay_video, eat slower, Health, how to live longer, longevity, obesity

Loose Women: Dr Hilary discusses how to live longer When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to

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High BMI Tied to Better Overall Survival in Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor-Treated Metastatic RCC

03/15/2021 biologic therapy, biologics, body mass index (bmi); bmi (body mass index), Cancer, cancer (renal cell), cancer of the kidney, carcinoma, genomic medicine, genomics, malignant kidney neoplasm, malignant neoplasia, malignant neoplasm, medicine (genomic), obese, obesity, Precision Medicine, renal cell cancer, renal cell carcinoma (rcc), targeted cancer therapy, targeted therapy

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC) treated with PD-1/PD-L1-based immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs),

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High Obesity Rates in Southern States Magnify COVID Threat

03/11/2021 2019 Novel Coronavirus, 2019-nCoV, cerebrovascular accident, coronavirus, cva (cerebrovas, Diabetes Mellitus, diabetes mellitus type 2, diabetes mellitus type ii, HCoV-229E, HCoV-OC43, Human coronavirus 229E, Human coronavirus HKU1, Human coronavirus OC43, Hypertension, obese, obesity, pain, pain (pain management), pain management, stroke, type 2 diabetes, weight gain, weight management, wuhan coronavirus

Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. In January, as Mississippi health officials

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CDC Data Strengthens Link Between Obesity and Severe COVID

03/08/2021 2019 Novel Coronavirus, 2019-nCoV, body mass index (bmi); bmi (body mass index), coronavirus, HCoV-229E, HCoV-OC43, Human coronavirus 229E, Human coronavirus HKU1, Human coronavirus OC43, obese, obesity, wuhan coronavirus

Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Officials have previously linked being overweight or obese to

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Study finds link between coronavirus mortality risk and obesity

03/05/2021 and, between, coronavirus, finds, link, mortality, obesity, risk, study

Are America’s high obesity levels leading to more coronavirus deaths? Fox News medical contributor Dr. Marc Siegel weighs in on

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Study discovers similarities between the genetic bases of various eating disorders

03/01/2021 anorexia, Anorexia Nervosa, Bases, Body Mass Index, Bulimia Nervosa, depression, Eating Disorder, Genes, genetic, genetics, Genome, medicine, obesity, Psychiatry, research, schizophrenia

Anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge-eating disorder are the three main eating disorders that 4 out of in 10 individuals

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Genes identified that increase the risk of obesity but also protect against disease

02/26/2021 against, Also, but, disease, Genes, identified, increase, obesity, of, protect, risk, that, the

People living with obesity tend to have unhealthy glucose and lipid levels in their blood, as well as high blood

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