Digestive Health Nutrition

Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc., announced today that top-line data from its Phase 2 clinical study with LX1031 in patients with non-constipating irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) will be presented at GASTRO 2009 in London this week. Results from the study, which showed a significant improvement in IBS symptoms, will be presented by Dr. Philip M. Brown, Lexicon’s senior vice president of clinical …

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Nutrition For Health And Healing

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Childhood obesity is on the rise, and with it comes an increased risk for developing health problems such as type 2 diabetes. The best way to reduce the risk of serious weight-related health issues such as diabetes is to eat healthy and increase physical activity.

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Physicians who specialize in treating obesity say education is key to remedying this bias.

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Gov. Tim Pawlenty sliced the program’s $5.3 million appropriation as part of a $2.7 billion emergency budget reduction in June. The nutrition cuts prompted a lawsuit that offers a glimpse into a program that serves some of the state’s poorest residents.

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Merck & Co., Inc. today announced the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMEA) has recommended approval of ELONVA® (corifollitropin alfa injection) as a treatment in controlled ovarian stimulation (COS) in combination with a GnRH antagonist for the development of multiple follicles in women participating in an assisted reproductive technology …

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Current science and regulatory aspects of dietary fibre were updated in a recent seminar.

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A GROWING list of functional feed ingredients is delivering potential for productivity, health promotion and sustainability in aquaculture. Skretting’s Aquaculture Research Centre (ARC) is giving increasing attention to feed ingredients that perform special functions.

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Backed by the Minnesota House, six patients with special dietary conditions sue Pawlenty, state officials.

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A nutritionist in Nigeria says that malnutrition and iron deficiency in schoolchildren could be reduced in her country by baking up snail pie. In a research paper to be published in the International Journal of Food Safety, Nutrition and Public Health, she explains snail is not only cheaper and more readily available than beef but contains more protein.

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