A recent study showed that nearly half of those patients who took the experimental drug Revlimid, showed little signs of the gene mutation which causes the disease. In other cases, the abnormality was completely eradicated.

Specialists are now saying the drug looks like the first effective treatment for people with the cancer

Hong Kong health department officials are planning to enact laws to make sure children are provided with healthy lunch as increase in obesity among kids is posing a threat. AFP reported quoting a report published in the Sunday Morning Post th

t the law would regulate lunches offered to youngsters at school canteens. The law will be enacted by 2007. A recently conducted study showed that "the rate of obesity has gone up to almost one in five and that the mean weight of 18-year old boys had increased 16 percent in five years and for girls the figure was 11 percent,"

William J Brown - News Room Administrators Staff

The study was published in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine and found that for those under 65, surgery cuts the death rate by more than 50%

San Diego biotech company, Arena Pharmaceuticals, says an experimental anti-obesity drug called ADP356 has done well in small clinical Phase II trials.

The drub, when taken at it's highest dose enabled obese people to lose an average of 2.9 pounds after 28 days, compared with just 0.7 pounds for those getting a placebo

Consumer Reports magazine releases results of their diet analysis, stating Weight Watchers and Slim-Fast are most effective for long-term weight loss.

Althought not notorious for rating things such as diets, Consumer deemed Weight Watchers support group meetings and Slim-Fast's shakes as an alternative to cooking the best formulas to eliminating unwanted weight