A new study suggests that a fatty acid and other heart healthy monounsaturated fats found in olive oil can ward off hunger pangs.

According to the researcher, their findings may lead to the development of some new medicines to limit or enhance hunger.

Professor Daniele Piomelli from the University of California, Irvine, and his team injected the fat (named oleic acid) in to intestines of lab rodents and noted that the fat turned into a fat messenger known as oleoylethanolamide (OEA). …Click here to read more

CHICAGO - Only two percent of fresh medical graduates have planned to work in primary care internal medicine, creating a shortage of the first-stop doctors who considered being the backbone of the American medical system, according to a new survey.

Results published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The figure was nine percent in a similar survey in 1990.

Paperwork, demands of the chronic patients and abundance of work are the factors changing young doctors mind. Primary care doctors he met as a student had to “speed to see enough patients to make a reasonable living,” Shipman said.

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