New York, NY — A new study led by Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) researchers has found that leptin, a hormone that plays a key role in energy metabolism, fertility, and bone mass, also ...

The frustration is all too familiar – you’re counting calories, exercising regularly, yet that stubborn belly fat refuses to disappear. What many don’t realize is that hormones often play a decisive ...

Three decades ago, in a lab at The Rockefeller University, New York City, Jeffrey Friedman, MD, PhD, observed a paradox that would forever change our understanding of obesity. His subjects, a rare ...

Hormone absence or inactivity is common in congenital disease, but hormone antagonism remains controversial. Here, we characterize two novel homozygous leptin variants that yielded antagonistic ...

Leptins belong to a class of adipocyte-originating hormones that have a variety of functions in the regulation of appetite and metabolism, as well as in immune regulation. The lungs are a rich source ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you constantly feel hungry no matter how you try to manage your appetite, a hormonal imbalance known as leptin resistance could ...

In 2005 the World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that globally 400 million adults were obese, defined by a body mass index (BMI) of 30 kg/m2 or greater. WHO projects that by 2015 there will be ...

As science advances, so does our understanding of our bodies and how they work. We've come to realize that getting to a healthy personal weight involves a lot more than eat less, move more. Our ...