Nursing Library & Medical Articles
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Caring About Kids
Vol. 7, No. 5 / May 2008 Bariatric surgery for obesity: Does it decrease mortality? Dr. Xiong is assistant clinical professor, departments of internal medicine and psychiatry and behavioral sciences, University ...
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Blocking the ‘munchies’ receptor: A novel approach to obesity
Vol. 3, No. 11 / November 2004 Blocking the ‘munchies’ receptor: A novel approach to obesity • THE ‘MUNCHIES’ IN MICE • RIMONABANT’S ROLE IN PSYCHIATRY • MANAGING SCHIZOPHRENIA Edmund S. ...
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No ‘super-sizing’: Help kids on psychotropics avoid weight gain
Vol. 4, No. 1 / January 2005 W.Victor R. Vieweg, MD; A. Bela Sood, MD; Anand Pandurangi, MD; Joel J. Silverman, MD No ‘super-sizing’: Help kids on psychotropics avoid weight gain ...
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Beating OBESITY: Help Patients Control Binge Eating Disorder And Night Eating Syndrome
• Characteristics of BED and NES • Diagnosis and evaluation • Controlling binge eating • Treating night eating syndrome These two eating disorders often can be treated successfully without referral to ...
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Undertstanding Obesity Stigma
Understanding Obesity Stigma An educational resource provided by the Obesity Action Coalition Understanding Obesity Stigma “The alarming rates of obesity have brought widespread attention to the medical consequences of this public ...
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Prader-Willi Syndrome
h4. What is Prader-Willi syndrome? Prader-Willi syndrome is a complex genetic condition that affects many parts of the body. In infancy, this condition is characterized by weak muscle tone (hypotonia), feeding ...
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Obesity Losing Weight and Keeping It Off
h4. Introduction Regardless of what the obese state represents in terms of altered metabolic and hormonal function, obesity is above all a psychological or, perhaps more accurately, a behavioral disorder. Eating ...