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...past fall, 81 Harvard undergraduates served as volunteer mentors for Project HEALTH. One student, Obinna O. Orji ’08, is now the project coordinator for STRENGTH and helped to design its curriculum by collecting surveys from patients and their families at the BMC’s Endocrinology Clinic on the health issues about which they would like to learn. Recent medical research shows that the obesity epidemic both worldwide and in the United States now affects not only the adult population, but also youths. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the share of youths between...
...weight loss is still probably the biggest health benefit the Wii will have for users. Active video games like the Wii can fight child obesity, according to a report published by the Mayo Clinic in the January issue of Pediatrics. In that study, researchers found that children burned three times as many calories playing "active" video games versus playing traditional hand-held video games. Because the study was done before the Wii debuted, researchers tested Sony's EyeToy and Microsoft's Xbox. But Lorraine Lanningham-Foster, the report's lead researcher, expects the Wii to have the same effect...
This year's venue at Heavenly, for example, will feature the Feb. 2-4 Her Turn Ski and Snowboard Clinic--baited with multiday family ski packages for as little as $1,300--while Breckenridge's Park & Pipe Camps are expected to draw large crowds to the Colorado town in February and March. Virginia's Wintergreen Resort puts together wine tours in the nearby Charlottesville area. Vermont's Stowe Mountain Resort holds Wednesday ski clinics as part of its For Women, By Women series. And at Keystone, Betty Fest has become the industry's best-known program for women...
...been the catalyst for a sea change in public attitudes to illegal drugs in British Columbia. Vancouver now leads North America in treating addiction as a health and social problem as well as a crime. It hosts the continent's only supervised heroin injection site, as well as a clinic dispensing free heroin in a scientific trial. But not much has changed at street level in the Downtown Eastside. Some 15,000 injection-drug addicts, many of them mentally ill, are concentrated in Canada's most impoverished neighborhood. An estimated 1500 female addicts continue to sell so called "survival...
...have been involved in a feud with Shavers' stepson. And in the early morning hours of Jan. 4, an intruder shot and killed filmmaker and social activist Helen Hill at her home not far from the French Quarter; Hill's husband Paul Gailiunas, a physician who helped establish a clinic for indigent patients, was injured in the attack and was found clutching the couple's two-year-old son, who escaped unharmed...