Kaiser Permanente is a progressive not-for-profit health plan provider and one of the initial advocates of behavioral health integration into overall primary medical care.  Newly published research* suggests that people who lose weight immediately following Type 2 Diabetes, "insulin resistance," diagnosis realize improved health outcomes, such as reaching blood pressure and blood sugar goals.  Another impor ...

A national poll conducted by C.S. Mott Children's Hospital's National Poll on Children's Health suggests that obesity problems are not limited to adults. In fact, childhood obesity came in at #1 in their poll, bumping smoking and drug abuse from the top spots a year ago. ...

A personal friend asked a great question after I told him about The Behavioral Medicine Report: What is Behavioral Medicine? Behavioral Medicine and the related Health Psychology are sub-specialties in psychology.  Behavioral medicine is an interdisciplinary approach (i.e. utilizes knowledge from different fields of healthcare) to the development and integration of behavioral and biomedical information to t ...