The increase of obesity in the United States doubled the number of inconclusive diagnostic imaging exams over a 15-year period, according to a study featured in the August issue of Radiology.Researchers assessed all radiology exams performed at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) between 1989 and 2003 to determine the effects of obesity on imaging quality and diagnosis.In an effort to quantify how obesity affects diagnostic imaging quality, Dr. [click link for full article]

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A vaccine against cervical cancer could go on sale within weeks. Gardasil has proved 100 per cent effective against the two main strains of the virus which trigger most cervical cancers

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Ten million women and girls in theU.S. suffer from eating disorders and more people die from anorexia eachyear than from any other mental illness. Fortunately, for those individualsand families affected by eating disorders, help is available and recoveryis possible. [click link for full article]

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The Government has been criticised for ’squandering money’ on controversial Independent Sector Treatment Centres after a report found they were no more cost effective than NHS services and had failed to significantly increase capacity

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The waistlines of children continue to grow, along with the concern about the problem. Two University of Cincinnati researchers are recruiting a school, parents and children in fighting obesity as they test a new prevention program in Meade County, Ky. After spending spring conducting focus groups with children and their parents, the 12-week program, geared toward 129 fifth-graders, will be launched at an elementary school in Brandenburg, Ky., when school begins this fall. [click link for full article]

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When Dennis Waterman’s partner Pam Flint had surgery to remove her cancerous bladder, it took her time to come to terms with her stoma - an artificial opening in the abdomen through which urine is excreted. But five months later she has come to terms with it, accepting that it’s saved her life

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Two of Australia’s leading obesity experts have rejected as “nonsense” criticism by the AMA and Labor Party of the $3 million obesity study initiative announced yesterday by Federal Health Minister Tony Abbott. [click link for full article]

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Reuters - More and more obese people are unable to get full medical care because they are either too big to fit into scanners, or their fat is too dense for X-rays or sound waves to penetrate, radiologists reported on Tuesday.

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Reuters - Type 2 diabetes before age 20 leads to a high risk of kidney disease and death by middle age, a significant finding because worldwide obesity is exposing more children to the disease, researchers said on Tuesday.

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The seated row is probably one of my favorite upper body exercises because it targets so many muscles of the back. What I really like is that it works…

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