Nov

28

While millions of obese patients pursue gastric bypass surgery to get rid of excess pounds, weight loss may not be the only reason to go under the knife.

Researchers at Monash University Centre for Obesity and Education released the results of a four-year study in January 2008, indicating that gastric banding can also help improve conditions of Type 2 diabetes.

Calorie-restriction and a consistent exercise program may be important elements of diabetes management, but results of this study highlight the value of gastric banding for both weight loss and healthy glycemic levels.
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Nov

28

Orthodontics is a special discipline of dentistry concerned with aligning the teeth and jaws to improve one’s smile and oral health. “Ortho” means correct or straight, and “Odont” means tooth.A dentist usually recommends braces to improve the patient’s physical “orofacial” appearance. Through orthodontic treatment, problems like crooked or crowded teeth, overbites or underbites, incorrect jaw position and disorders of the jaw joints are corrected.
When is the right time for braces? Read more

Nov

27

In a discovery that may solve the mystery behind the source of moon’s water, an evidence from NASA’s LCROSS mission suggested that much
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of it was delivered by comets that slammed into the Earth’s satellite billions of years ago.

Previous missions had also found hints of lunar water but its source was never clear. One idea is that it forms when hydrogen atoms from the solar wind latch onto oxygen atoms in the lunar soil, creating hydroxyl and water. Read more

Nov

27

Pregnant women who are overweight or obese progress through labor more slowly than do normal weight women, according to a study by researchers at the University of North Carolina and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development of the National Institutes of Health.

Since a longer labor is one consideration for whether or not a pregnant woman will have a Caesarean section, the new finding also means that a physician may need to take a woman’s weight into account before deciding whether or not to recommend her for the procedure, the study authors caution. Read more

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