Paul Little: Risky feel-good fat love - New Zealand Herald

Paul Little: Risky feel-good fat love New Zealand Herald A growing number of fat people refuse to acknowledge the health risks of their size, which include type 2 diabetes, heart attacks, strokes, some cancers, sleep apnoea, osteoarthritis and gout. Like any good campaigners, weight-diversity activists ... and more »

Three Cleveland hospitals to collaborate in national heart failure research ... - Plain Dealer

Plain Dealer

Three Cleveland hospitals to collaborate in national heart failure research ... Plain Dealer The second is a two-year study of a gout medication on chronic heart failure outpatients with high blood uric acid levels. Patients for both studies will be recruited from within the three institutions, said Dunlap. But these two trials are just the ...

Alzheimer's, back pain treatments, osteoarthritis diagnosis tech get fresh capital - MedCity News

MedCity News

Alzheimer's, back pain treatments, osteoarthritis diagnosis tech get fresh capital MedCity News Newtown, Pennsylvania-based CD Diagnostics' technology involves using biomarkers in synovial fluid to diagnose maladies such as osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, gout, pseudogout and lupus, according to literature from the company's presentation at ...

Free to be fat - Globe and Mail

Globe and Mail

Free to be fat Globe and Mail At 43, he suffered from obesity, along with arthritis, gout, indigestion and “raging thirst” (possibly diabetes), as well as almost suicidal depression. But Wood transformed himself “from a monster to a person of moderate size; from the condition of an ...