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An endocrine hormone used in clinical trials as an anti-obesity and anti-diabetes drug causes significant and rapid bone loss in mice, raising concerns about its safe use, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have shown. The hormone, fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF21), promotes bone loss by enhancing the activity of a protein that stimulates fat cells but inhibits bone cells, researchers report in a study available online in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences....

Brown adipose tissue (often known as brown fat) is a specialized tissue that burns calories to generate body heat in rodents and newborn humans. Recently, adult humans have also been found to possess brown fat. This piqued the interest of researchers seeking to combat the obesity epidemic, the thought being that increasing the amount of brown fat a person has will make them lose weight. A team of researchers led by Sheila Collins, at the Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, Orlando,...

Stem cells derived from fat have a surprising trick up their sleeves: Encouraged to develop on a stiff surface, they undergo a remarkable transformation toward becoming mature muscle cells. The new research appears in the journal Biomaterials. The new cells remain intact and fused together even when transferred to an extremely stiff, bone-like surface, which has University of California, San Diego bioengineering professor Adam Engler and colleagues intrigued. These cells, they suggest, could...

NEW YORK, Jan. 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- For the 80% of women who live with and battle the appearance of cellulite, the wait for a "miracle treatment" is finally over thanks to a groundbreaking new procedure called Cellulaze. For the past two years Dr. Bruce Katz, founder of the JUVA Skin & Laser Center and one of the original pioneers of SmartLipo(TM), has been the sole dermatologist in the U.S. to conduct the clinical trials of Cellulaze that have led to its recent FDA...

WESTFORD, Mass., Jan. 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Cynosure, Inc. (NASDAQ: CYNO) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has cleared the Company's Cellulaze(TM) Workstation for commercial distribution, giving millions of American women the first minimally invasive solution in their battle against cellulite. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120130/NE43525) "Cellulaze is the world's first and only minimally invasive medical device designed to treat women...

(Ivanhoe Newswire)-- Can brown fat make you thinner? A research team led by Andre Carpentier and Denis Richard at the Université de Sherbrook, in Quebec; attempted to find the answer. Brown adipose tissue also known as brown fat is a tissue known to burn calories and generate body heat in new born babies and rodents. Recently, adult humans were also found to have a small percentage of brown fat. The Canadian researchers were intrigued by the idea that if they could develop ways to...

MALVERN, Pa., Jan. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Auxilium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: AUXL), a specialty biopharmaceutical company, today announced that the first cohort of patients has been dosed in its phase Ib trial of XIAFLEX(®) (collagenase clostridium histolyticum) for the treatment of edematous fibrosclerotic panniculopathy (EFP), commonly known as cellulite. Cellulite has been reported to occur in 85-98% of post-pubertal females and rarely in men. The condition is prevalent...

In response to overwhelming demand, the deadline for entering the $25,000 SafSlim Lean Belly Challenge™ has been extended to February 7, 2012. GAINESVILLE, Fla. (PRWEB) January 25, 2012 In response to overwhelming demand, the deadline for entering the $25,000 SafSlim Lean Belly Challenge™ has been extended to February 7, 2012. The 90-Day Challenge, officially launched by SafSlim™ enthusiast Montel Williams and ReBody CEO Naomi Whittel on January 10, challenges Americans to lose...

Brown adipose tissue (often known as brown fat) is a specialized tissue that burns calories to generate body heat in rodents and newborn humans, neither of which shiver. Recently, adult humans have also been found to possess brown fat. This fact piqued the interest of researchers seeking to combat the obesity epidemic, the thought being that if they could develop ways to increase the amount of brown fat a person has that person will become slimmer. One hitch to this idea is it has never...

TriLipo MED is a technological breakthrough that allows practitioners for the first time to treat 4 layers of skin tissue using 3 advanced technologies, all within a single system. TriLipo MED is the ideal non-invasive solution for a wide variety of aesthetic conditions such as wrinkle reduction, skin tightening, cellulite and fat reduction and more. (PRWEB) January 22, 2012 Dr. Ghislaine Beilin, a renowned aesthetic physician from Paris and an international expert on radiofrequency,...