Current medical news from today, including Walmart’s new anti-obesity initiative adds “Great for You” label to healthy groceries, drug prices to rise in 2012, and picking the best online medical communities.

Imagine a new kind of wellness gift card that employees get as a reward for participating in corporate health screenings and other activities. But, as a bonus to companies, the employers can make sure their wellness rewards are being spent on something healthy.That concept is about two months away. A New Jersey company called United [...]

Current medical news from today, including when overweight doctors give (and don’t give) diet advice, drug risks and the FDA, and medical products and services on Craigslist.

Current medical news from today, including: An Alzheimer’s disease drug fails, industry disclosure about payments to doctors, and U.S. obesity rates level off.

A new series of billboard and television ads is outraging Georgians, who object to the “Stop Sugarcoating It, Georgia” campaign being run by the Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta pediatric hospital. The ads depict overweight and obese children in a variety of settings, and are meant to shock parents into action.The campaign, launched in August 2011, [...]

By far, consumer health and fitness apps and devices ruled the exhibitor floor at the 2012 Digital Health Summit. But arguably the second-most popular theme for new digital health technology was diabetes and obesity-management platforms and devices.There are already hundreds of diabetes-related apps and devices on the market that allow patients to track and store [...]

Current medical news and unique business news for anyone who cares about the healthcare industryAll hail the new weight loss solution? Tackling the obesity epidemic may have gotten a little bit easier with what could be a weight loss without exercise regimen. Researchers at Harvard Medical School have identified a new hormone called irisinthat imitates [...]

UPDATEDPeople eager to tackle obesity or just maintain a healthy lifestyle may soon have another tool to help them achieve their goals.MetaLogics Corp, a Minnesota company, is building a calorie monitor that it claims is the “only wearable device that directly measures the calories your body burns without relying on guesses or estimates.”In late December [...]

I’ve written before about obesity issues – mostly related to soda and diet soda (the message — even diet soda isn’t good for you — try to drink water instead) and also that even being a little overweight can still result in health problems. But a new study, coming out of the National Longitudinal Study [...]

Three diabetes-related research projects at Mayo Clinic and the University of Minnesota received more than $1.8 million through a state-funded research initiative for preventing, treating and curing diabetes.Decade of Discovery is an initiative of the Minnesota Partnership for Biotechnology and Medical Genomics, a collaboration between the university, the clinic and the state of Minnesota. It [...]