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...smartest thinkers on the problem and propose solutions to end it in our lifetimes. We are inviting leaders from food, beverage, insurance, pharmaceutical and health-care companies, along with doctors, nutritionists, educators, elected officials and concerned citizens. Among the experts who have agreed to attend are Richard Carmona, U.S. Surgeon General; Eric Hentges, who is redesigning the food pyramid for the U.S. Department of Agriculture; Dr. T. Berry Brazelton, one of America's leading child psychiatrists; Kelly Brownell, Yale's top expert on eating disorders; Brock Leach, senior vice president and chief innovation officer at PepsiCo; Ann Fudge, chairman...
...million American patients a year. Dr. Keith Walter at Wake Forest University reports that the hotter and more humid it is when doctors perform the operation, the more likely patients are to come back for follow-up procedures. High humidity can apparently cause the cornea to swell, affecting the surgeon's accuracy. --By Sora Song
...superfluous tests indulged in by doctors afraid of malpractice lawsuits. The trial lawyers charge that the proposals are simply a bow to Republican donors residing in insurance lobbies. They’ve gone as far as accusing Sen. Bill Frist, R-Tenn., the majority leader and a heart surgeon, of “participating in the debate since his family founded the H.C.A. hospital chain and its subsidiary malpractice insurer, Health Care Indemnity...
...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, two tough decision makers who help run Hamas from increasingly constricted exile in Damascus...
...relationships among various illnesses [March 1]. You provided potentially lifesaving information. I now have a new direction to pursue that may help me receive aggressive medical treatment. There was more information in this article than I have received in the past year from my family doctor, neurologist and orthopedic surgeon combined. Jean Ayotte White Lake...