Archive for May, 2008
Acomplia 2007 Overall Results
Posted on May 21, 2008 - Filed Under Acomplia | Leave a Comment
Acomplia (generic name rimonabant) has been an authorised medication in the EU since June 2006 for use in adult patients where the BMI exceeds 30 or the BMI exceeds 27 with associated risk factors such as diabetes. In all cases it can only be prescribed in conjunction with a hypocaloric diet and physical exercise.
In March [...]
Adiposity
Posted on May 14, 2008 - Filed Under Weight Loss | Leave a Comment
Adiposity - pathological adjournment of fat in a body (in hypodermic cellular tissue, an omentum, around kidneys, on a surface of heart, in belly walls, on a neck, etc.).
Symptoms of adiposity: adiposity of the moderate degree - a short wind at movements, slackness of digestion; adiposity of an extreme degree - a short wind at [...]
Obesity Drugs for Kids
Posted on May 9, 2008 - Filed Under Acomplia, Weight Loss | Leave a Comment
A new class of weight loss pills that suppress appetite through receptors in the brain could affect on visual perseption in children.
The appetite suppressing receptors are called cannabinoid receptors. They control the plasticity and also regulate signaling among neurons in the visual cortex.
The researchers looked at the drug rimonabant (Acomplia). Findings suggest obesity drugs that [...]
