Fat. Fat. Fat. Fat.

Fat. Fat. Fat. Fat.
By Raymond Sokolov
The Wall Street Journal Europe
28 Jul 2006

Fat-lovers all over Chicago are quivering like jelly, from their 24-inch necks to their long-lost-from-view ankles. Why? Alderman Edward M. Burke has proposed an ordinance banning restaurant chains from cooking with oils containing trans fats. Windy... read more...

Accounting For Health Care

Accounting For Health Care
Thomas Bray
New York Sun
26 Jul 2006

Corporate America is moving rapidly to cut employee and retiree health costs, as evidenced by the recent agreement between General Motors and the United Auto Workers to trim $15 billion from health care over the lifetime of workers, retirees, and their... read more...

A STRATEGY TO PROTECT OUR HEALTH- CARE ADVANTAGE

A STRATEGY TO PROTECT OUR HEALTH- CARE ADVANTAGE
DAVID ZUSSMAN
Ottawa Citizen
24 Jul 2006

Earlier this month, an e- mail was circulated throughout the Bay Street financial community arguing that due to the wait- time crisis in Canada, it may take weeks or months to obtain access to MRI ( magnetic resonance imaging) or CT scans in the... read more...

DIET DECODER

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DIET DECODER
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Toronto Star
21 Jul 2006

DIET: Eat Carbs, Lose Weight: Drop All the Pounds You Want without Giving Up the Foods You Love (Rodale; $35.95) CREATOR: Denise Austin CREDENTIALS: Austin is the star of Lifetime Television’s The Daily Workout and Fit & Lite. More than 20 million... read more...

Gates cash funds hunt for Aids vaccine

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Gates cash funds hunt for Aids vaccine
MAGGIE FOX
The Herald
20 Jul 2006

THE Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced $287m (159m) in grants yesterday to create an international network of 16 laboratories to try new approaches to making a vaccine against Aids. The foundation wants the programme to transform the so-far... read more...

Stem-cell glossary

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Stem-cell glossary

Seattle Times
18 Jul 2006

are the body’s master cells, the source of all cells and tissue. are produced in the first few days after sperm meets egg. These very early embryonic cells can give rise to an entire organism, including the placenta. come from a ball of cells known... read more...

Obesity at age 18, death in middle age

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Obesity at age 18, death in middle age
By Nanci Hellmich USA TODAY
USA Today
19 Jul 2006

Women who are overweight or obese at 18 are at a greater risk of dying in middle age than women who stay at a healthy weight in their teens, a study finds. Scientists at Harvard School of Public Health examined the health habits andmedical records of... read more...

Reports reveal threats to NHS patients’ safety

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Reports reveal threats to NHS patients’ safety
John Carvel Sarah Hall Sarah Boseley
The Guardian
19 Jul 2006

The safety of patients within the NHS came under fresh scrutiny yesterday after evidence emerged of women being raped in psychiatric wards and patients dying because of prescribing errors by badly trained junior doctors. The revelations came as Sir Ian... read more...

Life like this is a pain . . . . . . if only it was like this

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Life like this is a pain . . . . . . if only it was like this

Tuesday - Health
18 Jul 2006

Poor housing conditions and urban sprawl may be contributing to the chronic health problems of the 21st century, according to the authors of a new report. While most people accept that living in crowded conditions or spending three hours a day... read more...

Hearing your biological clock tick at 22

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Hearing your biological clock tick at 22
By Elizabeth Bernstein
The Wall Street Journal Europe
18 Jul 2006

AFTER TRYING unsuccessfully to get pregnant, Meredith Whetzel did what many women these days do—she sought fertility treatment, having doctors run tests to check her hormone levels and ovary function and taking Clomid, an ovulation-enhancing drug. Ms.... read more...

Stop fast-food epidemic spreading in our hospitals

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Stop fast-food epidemic spreading in our hospitals
By ANDREW WEIL
Houston Chronicle
10 Jul 2006

FOUR years ago, a group of researchers at the University of Michigan conducted a survey of hospitals and found that 4 out of 10 had fast-food restaurants on their premises. Today, I’m afraid, that number can only have gone up — judging by how often I... read more...

OBESE DON’T FIT JOLLY STEREOTYPE: RESEARCHERS

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OBESE DON’T FIT JOLLY STEREOTYPE: RESEARCHERS
BY SHARON KIRKEY
National Post
04 Jul 2006

Unlike the stereotype that heavy people are jollier, obese people are more likely to suffer a range of psychiatric disorders, a new study concludes. U.S. researchers who studied more than 9,000 people found obesity was associated with a 25% increase... read more...

Experts seek ban on junk food ads to cut child obesity

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Experts seek ban on junk food ads to cut child obesity
Aideen Sheehan Food Correspondent
Irish Independent
07 Jul 2006

HEALTH promotion bodies have called for a total ban on the advertising of all junk food before the 9pm watershed to tackle Ireland’s soaring child obesity problem. No ads for foods high in fat, sugar and salt should be permitted on TV before 9pm, the... read more...

DIET DECODER

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DIET DECODER

Toronto Star
07 Jul 2006

DIET: Eat To Live (Little, Brown and Company; $21.95) CREATOR: Joel Fuhrman CREDENTIALS: Fuhrman is a board-certified family physician in private practice in New Jersey. CELEBRITY EDGE: Celebrity doctor Mehmet Oz writes the forward to the book. Oz is... read more...