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Baseline Dopamine Levels And Our Motivation To Eat Influenced By Fat Hormone
As we all know from experience, people eat not only because they are hungry, but also because the food just simply tastes too good to pass up. Now, a new study in the August 6th Cell Metabolism, a Cell Press publication, helps to explain how leptin, a hormone produced by fat tissue, influences that motivation to eat.

Infants Should Be Screened For Hip Trouble
Developmental hip dysplasia is the most common congenital defect in newborns. The condition occurs when a hip joint is shallow, unstable or when the joint is dislocated. Infants with the condition are often at risk of developing arthritis of the hip as a young adult. A new study published in the July 2009 issue of The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (JBJS) finds that screening all infants for hip dysplasia can significantly decrease their chance of developing early arthritis.
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Dilated Cardiomyopathy: Discovery Of Novel Gene
Researchers in the Heart Institute at Cincinnati Children"s Hospital Medical Center have discovered a novel gene responsible for heart muscle disease and chronic heart failure in some children and adults with dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM).
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Congress Unlikely To Approve Obama's Request For Additional Flu Money, Majority Leader Says

U.S House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) on Wednesday expressed skepticism that Congress would approve President Obama"s recent request for an additional $2 billion to help fight the H1N1 (swine flu) virus, Reuters/Washington Post reports. "A pending war funding bill that has already passed the House of Representatives included $2 billion while the Senate version had $1.5 billion," the newspaper writes. "If ... that"s insufficient there"s obviously an opportunity to pass an additional supplemental" at a later date, Hoyer said, adding, "We want to make sure that we have the funds necessary to respond to this pandemic." Reuters/Washington Post also reports that the White House does not believe the "bills provide the administration enough flexibility to respond to the outbreak of the flu virus" (Polofsky, Reuters/Washington Post, 6/3). WHO Director-General Margaret Chan on Wednesday encouraged "governments not to overreact to global outbreaks of swine flu as the agency moves closer to declaring the first pandemic in four decades," according to Bloomberg. Instead, "Chan suggested authorities must use the time before swine flu becomes global to revise emergency plans and convey the measures to their countries" populations" (Gale, Bloomberg, 6/4). This information was reprinted from globalhealth.kff.org with kind permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report, search the archives and sign up for email delivery at globalhealth.kff.org. © Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. All rights reserved.


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