Overweight and obese patients frequently feel stigmatized in health care settings, and face stereotypes and prejudice from health care providers. These stigmatizing experiences (also called ‘weight bias’) jeopardize patients’ emotional and physical health. The Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University (ruddcenter.yale.org) has released this new video in response to a growing […]

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Congressional Democrats and Republicans gathered at Blair House for a discussion on health care legislation with President Obama. He first announced the idea for this event during a Super Bowl Sunday interview with CBS news Anchor Katie Couric. Since then, the President has released a health care plan drawing largely from two bills passed by […]

PLEASE HELP US SHARE THIS VIDEO. On March 16, 2010, Tea Partiers from around the country gathered (in disappointing numbers) in front of the Capitol building for their final protest against health care reform. Also in town, appropriately, was Barnum & Bailey’s actual circus. The protestors voiced their usual conspiratorial concerns about healthcare reform: that […]

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President Obama speaks moments after the historic passage by the House of Representatives of the Senate’s health reform legislation.

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The condition, affecting connective issue in the hand’s palm, can affect someone’s capability to straighten and use their fingers.
The disorder is most common in white people and in men aged 50 and older, the bureau said in a news release.
Xiaflex is a biologic product that’s designed to break down the excessive collagen in the hand […]

The genetic variation in question robs people of about 30 genes and appears to be found in seven of each 1,000 severely obese people, the researchers report. The same variation also might be linked to mental retardation and learning disabilities.
“Obesity is definitively a genetic trait, and it is very likely that additional small chromosomal […]

The study included 568 adults who smoked 10 or more cigarettes a day for at least the past year. The smokers who used nicotine patches for the entire 24 weeks of the study (extended therapy) were about twice as prone to quit smoking as those who used nicotine patches for eight weeks and then received […]