Breastfeeding has a protective effect on childhood obesity, but the influences on body composition in early childhood are not known. The objective of this study is to assess whether the duration and ...

Decreases in the volume of subcutaneous fat cells following bariatric surgery in women with obesity improved insulin sensitivity more than reductions in fat mass, according to research published in ...

SUBCUTANEOUS masses may present a problem in differential diagnosis. Aneurysmal dilatation of a localized segment of a vein occurring in the absence of associated varicose veins is a rare phenomenon ...

Caliway has completed submission of an Investigational New Drug (IND) application to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for a Phase 2 clinical study of CBL-514 for weight management ...

Pilomatricoma is typically diagnosed on the basis of history and physical examination alone, without the need for imaging or biopsy. If the mass is located in an area that suggests another diagnosis - ...

To assess regression models for lipid and lean body mass in small birds, we recorded live body mass ±0.1 g, total body electrical conductivity (TOBEC; from "third generation" TOBEC machine EM-SCAN® SA ...

In patients who inject insulin, the most common cause of a soft-tissue abdominal mass is lipohypertrophy; however, insulin-derived amyloidosis should be included in the differential diagnosis for ...

A 10-year-old, white boy presents to the plastic surgery clinic with an 11-month history of a slowly growing, hard mass of his left posterior shoulder. He reports recent onset of tenderness over the ...