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...Hamas' secrecy seems to enhance its appeal. Only the so-called political wing has a public face. Everyone knew Sheik Yassin as Hamas' founder and spiritual head, the only cleric in the pantheon of Palestinian leaders. They know a few of the other out-front elite, like Rantisi, a pediatrician and Islamic ideologue who had been Hamas' No. 2; al-Zahar, a surgeon who teaches at Gaza's Islamic University and also leans toward the relative hard line; and the much lamented Abu Shanab, who reflected Hamas' more moderate side. Everyone is aware of Musa Abu Marzook and Khaled Mashaal...
...delivery service ZoneChefs, was launched last week in New York City and goes nationwide Feb. 15. Based on the Zone diet (40% carbohydrates, 30% protein and 30% fat), ZoneChefs Kids home-delivers three child-friendly balanced meals and two snacks for $29 a day. Says Dr. Alan Salem, a pediatrician who helped develop ZoneChefs Kids: "We are teaching children to make healthy choices." Others disagree. "Kids don't need to diet," says Dr. Arthur Davidson, chairman of the board of the American Society of Bariatric Physicians. "To take weight off kids, all you have to do is take the sugar...
...urges that drive us, it's the passion to be held that makes itself known first. If a baby is startled fresh from the womb, German pediatrician Ernst Moro discovered in 1918, its arms will fly up and out, then come together in a desperate clutch. Holding is good, and floating free is bad--a lesson that's not so much learned after birth as preloaded at the factory. In fact, doctors have long known that babies who aren't held simply fail to thrive. Not surprisingly, it's a need we never outgrow. In one way or another...
According to Mark L. Waltzman, a pediatrician at Children’s Hospital and member of the HMS faculty, the doctors, foregoing standard testing procedures, relied on physical examination, past experience and intuition to treat patients...
...amiss. She had spent Memorial Day happily frolicking in her grandmother's swimming pool, but by that evening she was doubling over in pain every time she went to the bathroom. Her mother figured it was probably an infection and the next day took Hillary, then 10, to the pediatrician. Instead of getting a prescription for an antibiotic, however, the 220lb. youngster was immediately admitted to the hospital. Lab tests showed that she had something far more serious--Type 2 diabetes...