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...findings could very well change federal recommendations about gestational weight gain. “I don’t think that this one paper has enough weight to get the Institute of Medicine to change anything, but it could be part of the weight that causes them to revisit the question,” he said. Leslie J. Sim, who directs the Committe on the Impact of Pregnancy Weight on Maternal and Child Health at the Institute of Medicine, said that any change would require another investigation by the National Academy of Science and would take over 18 months. Oken...
White House Press Secretary Tony Snow's announcement Tuesday that his colon cancer had returned provides a good opportunity to revisit the importance of colon cancer screening. Colon cancer is easily treated, and even cured in some cases, if lesions are caught early. The problem is that most people don't know they are harboring cancerous growths, since the disease has very few symptoms. Only a detailed look, provided by a colonoscopy screening, can pick up and remove small lesions before they become life-threatening...
...good romantic comedy is like a good holiday break. You want to revisit it. You want to start conversations with "Remember when ..." This is not that film, not even with Jude Law, Kate Winslet, Jack Black and Cameron Diaz. This is more like a weekend doing laundry. Not awful, just...
...idea to revisit the original war authorization was first proposed by Sen. Edward Kennedy in January and has been bouncing around the Senate chamber for a few weeks, talked up at various points by different Democratic senators. It was ignored chiefly because it had virtually no chance of winning any Republican votes - and that fact hasn't changed...
...bittersweet consolation of outgrowing your favorite children’s books is the chance to revisit them as adults with keener eyes. One of my own pet series of grade-school readers featured Amelia Bedelia, a bonneted and primly smocked English maid with a shaky grasp of her own native language. Much to the chagrin of her employers, Mr. and Mrs. Rogers, Amelia comically (and sometimes catastrophically) misinterprets their housekeeping instructions, thanks to her literalist approach to language...