Successful strategies for combating childhood obesity to be discussed at symposium
May 6, 2010
Childhood obesity experts discuss how to tackle the problem within communities at the 2010 Pediatric Obesity Symposium.
25 teens from South Texas communities to learn about tackling obesity, entering health professions
July 28, 2009
The Learn, Lead and Advance to New Opportunity (LLANO) Field Experience is a college encounter to train young people from South Texas about obesity and its resulting health problems.
Salud America! awards grants for research on Latino childhood obesity
July 7, 2009
Research will evaluate, inform policies and programs that aim to reverse obesity among Latino youths
Possible target for treating diabetes, obesity identified in study
January 8, 2009
Researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio have for the first time identified a protein that regulates the creation of a key hormone in fat tissue, a discovery that could have implications for the treatment of diabetes, obesity and possibly even aging.
New report is ‘roadmap’ of South Texas health disparities
April 10, 2008
Diabetes and obesity are the two most significant health disparities in South Texas, according to a new report produced by the Institute for Health Promotion Research at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.
Adult-onset obesity seen in mice when gene disrupted
February 26, 2008
Texas and California scientists who disrupted one type of the gene ubiquitin (Ubb) in mice observed neuronal death in the hypothalamus, impaired control of energy balance and adult-onset obesity in the rodents.