Founding of OBESITY RESEARCH

Founding the International Society of Complementary Medicine Research

© Oxford University Press 2004 *President, ISCMR, E-mail: [email protected] On November 22, 2003, delegates of the 10th Annual Symposium on Complementary Healthcare packed into the main lecture hall of the Royal College of Physicians in London to take a momentous step in the history of complementary medicine research. Sara Warber (USA) and Edzard Ernst (UK) chaired the meeting and began by i...

Circulation Research: reflections on the founding editor, Carl J. Wiggers.

The opportunity provided me by Dr Marbán, on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of Circulation Research, to reflect on my early contacts with the journal, naturally brings to mind 1953, the year of its founding. It was an exciting time for cardiovascular research. The United States had largely recovered from the trauma of World War II, and an internal enemy, cardiovascular disease, had re...

Founding Editor

Proteomics in obesity research.

Obesity has emerged as one of the major global epidemics of the 21st century and is now reaching alarming proportions. Obese subjects have an increased morbidity and mortality, decreased quality of life and a major risk of developing pathologies such as diabetes mellitus, insulin resistance and cardiovascular disease. Obesity is a complex disease characterised by an increase in body fat mass re...

Challenges in obesity research.

Obesity is the main nutritional problem and one of the most important health problems in developed societies. Central to the challenge of obesity prevention and management is a thoroughly understanding of its determinants. Multiple socio-cultural, socio-economic, behavioural and biological factors--often interrelated and many of them still unknown or poorly understood--can contribute to the est...