UroToday.com - No disease is local! As we continue to investigate the origins of illness, we are learning that most surgical disease, which is invariably localized, is the effect of a multifactorial cause. In urolithiasis, we are now beginning to understand that there is an association, between obesity and urolithiasis (i.e. the metabolic syndrome). The metabolic syndrome also includes hyperlipidemia, type 2 diabetes, and hypertension.

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Pediatric Weight Management Centers LLC is pleased to introduce Great Moves!, a new weight management program that aims to tackle the obesity epidemic plaguing children, adolescents and their families in the Boston area, and across the U.S. Great Moves! is based in part on a protocol developed at Children’s Hospital Boston. Professional medical services at Great Moves! programs in Massachusetts are provided in collaboration with the physicians of Children’s Hospital Boston.

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We have known for sometime that obesity dramatically increases your risk of developing dementia. This new study highlights that having a large abdomen, regardless of weight, also significantly increases your risk. This is an important piece of research but the results are not that surprising as a large stomach is associated with high blood pressure, cholesterol and diabetes - all major risk factors for dementia.

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New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center is recruiting patients for a national clinical research study of an investigational implantable device designed to help those with type-2 diabetes who are overweight and do not respond to current oral anti-diabetic treatments. The Tantalus® System is designed to sense naturally occurring electrical activity of the stomach in real time and automatically apply electrical stimulation when a person eats.

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