Obesity

Obesity is the condition in which excess fat has accumulated in the body (mostly in subcutaneous tissues). clinical obesity is considered to be present when a person has a BMI of over 30 (Oxford Dic...

Obesity and the Metabolic Syndrome

Factor VIII:vWF CSL

Factor VIII:vWF Mab ARC

Factor VIII:vWF Mab CSL

"Sweating sickness" in Tudor England and other stories

Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII’s henchman, woke one day to find his bed sheets damp and his wife warm and flushed. She was dead when he returned from work. Speculation about the cause of this “sweati...

Michael Henry West

Michael Henry West , the eldest son of Dr Henry Owen West, joined the 56th Reconnaissance Regiment six months after qualifying and served with them throughout North Africa, Sicily, and Austria. He......

The John Henry effect

The “Ballad of John Henry” tells of the legendary black American steel pin driver, John Henry, who swung a huge nine pound hammer driving railroad spikes on the Chesapeake and Ohio railway in the....

Plasma-Derived Factor VIII Has No Immunogenic Advantage (CME/CE)

(MedPage Today) -- Factor VIII clotting factors derived from donor plasma were just as likely as recombinant products to induce inhibitory antibodies in children with hemophilia A, researchers said.

Masimo Signs Pronto-7T Distribution Deal with Henry Schein

Masimo (NASDAQ: MASI) announced today that Henry Schein Medical, the Medical business of Henry Schein, Inc., (NASDAQ: HSIC), the world's largest provider of health care products and services to off...

Diabetes: Is It Now a Surgical Disease?

Henry Black covers recent studies showing strong evidence that bariatric surgery is an important treatment not just for obesity but for diabetes as well. Medscape Cardiology

Raymond Henry Jones

Raymond Henry Jones (“Ray”) was born in Pontyberem, Carmarthenshire on 27 December 1949, the eldest of two boys. His mother died when he was 7 years old, but as he was exceptionally bright he gain...

Frederick Henry Rowland

Frederick Henry Rowland (“Fred”), the eldest son of a plumber, was an exact contemporary of John Major, the former British prime minister, at Rutlish School, Merton, where he had attained a......

Henry VIII's obesity following traumatic brain injury.

Membrane binding properties of the factor VIII C2 domain.

Factor VIII functions as a cofactor for factor IXa in a membrane-bound enzyme complex. Membrane binding accelerates activity of the factor VIIIa-factor IXa complex approximately 100,000-fold and the m...

Neurodegenerative disease and obesity: what is the role of weight loss and bariatric interventions?

Neurodegenerative diseases are amongst the leading causes of worldwide disability, morbidity and decreased quality of life. They are increasingly associated with the concomitant worldwide epidemic of...

HENRY: development, pilot and long-term evaluation of a programme to help practitioners work more effectively with parents of babies and pre-school children to prevent childhood obesity.

Abstract Background Despite epidemic numbers of obese and overweight pre-school children, professionals report a lack of confidence and self-efficacy in working with parents around lifestyle change. H...

One-pot sequential organocatalysis: highly stereoselective synthesis of trisubstituted cyclohexanols.

A highly diastereoselective (d.r. >99:1) and enantioselective (ee value up to 96 %) synthesis of trisubstituted cyclohexanols was achieved by using a one-pot sequential organocatalysis that involved...