Introduction The principle of electrophoresis is known to be of great use in today's medicine and an expanding literature on this subject supports this view. Various methods for the electrophoretic separation of charged molecules have been developed in the past 15 years. Immunological and physicochemical studies have further increased knowledge of these electrophoretic fractions. On this princi...

OBJECTIVE The prevalence of childhood obesity more than doubled in the period from 1961 to 2001. We replicated a 1961 study of stigma in childhood obesity to see what effect this increased prevalence has had on this stigma. RESEARCH METHODS AND PROCEDURES Participants included 458 5th- and 6th-grade children attending upper-middle and lower-middle income U.S. public schools. Children ranked s...