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In last week’s column, you learned that using the scale to gauge weight loss success or failure isn’t always a good idea. It is normal for body weight to fluctuate depending on factors such as fluids and food consumed, medications and medical conditions, and levels of physical activity.

In last week’s column, you learned that using the scale to gauge weight loss success or failure isn’t always a good idea. It is normal for body weight to fluctuate depending on factors such as fluids and food consumed, medications and medical conditions, and levels of physical activity.For this reason, it is important to take your body type into account when deciding on weight loss goals. For ...

UroToday.com - A major dilemma among patients with non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) and their physicians is the choice of an appropriate course of action following failure of intravesical bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG). Although classified the same, NMIBC actually consists of 2 biologically different diseases; 1) low-grade NMBIC who are likely to recur but rarely progress and 2) high ...

Why do people become physically weaker as they age? And is there any way to slow, stop, or even reverse this process, breaking the link between increasing age and frailty? In a paper published online this Wednesday in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology Metabolism, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston researchers present evidence that answers to both those questions can be found ...

Researchers have found that muscle loss in the elderly is directly linked to decreased post-meal expansion in blood vessels that supply nutrients to muscles.