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Nutrition for Life (Leesburg Today)
(Family Features) - Have you ever tried eating smart? It’s not just about making savvy nutrition choices like opting for whole grain over white, steamed over fried, or baked over saut ed. It’s about boosting your eating knowledge to reap rewards that go beyond losing weight or reducing health risks.

Farm Bill Provision Will Disrupt Maryland’s Women, Infant and Children (WIC) Supplemental Nutrition Program (PR Newswire via Yahoo! News)
A survey released today by Spectrum Science Communications states that a little known anti-privatization measure in the current farm bill would critically harm Maryland’s ability to effectively administer its Women, Infant and Children (WIC) Supplemental Nutrition program. The measure, offered as an amendment to the House-passed Farm Bill by Rep. Joe Baca (D-CA), would restrict all states from …

Seminar offers cow-nutrition advice (Rapid City Journal)
Livestock experts will present two training sessions addressing cow nutrition at calving and herd health, Feb. 22 in Wessington Springs and March 14 in Mitchell.

Dorgan asks for rationale for GF nutrition lab closing (Grand Forks Herald)
North Dakota Sen. Byron Dorgan submitted a series of questions today about the proposed closing of the USDA's Human Nutrition Research Center in Grand Forks during a hearing of the U.S. Senate's Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee. Advertisement: Crosstown Lounge Crosstown Lounge | Drink Specials Happy Hour until 7pm, nightly specials TBA

MSU Hosts Nutrition Fair (KEYC Mankato)
Minnesota State University held a Nutrition Fair today.Student Health Servi

International nutrition conference to be held in Hanoi (Nh n D n)
Around 300 experts from 45 countries will gather in Hanoi on March 3 to attend the 35th Session of the United Nations Standing Committee on Nutrition.

Atrium refocuses its operations on the health and nutrition sector and posts strong net earnings growth (CNW Group via Yahoo! Finance)
Atrium Innovations Inc. today discloses its annual financial results and also reconfirms the strategic refocusing of its business operations. Atrium intends to concentrate its operations uniquely in the health and nutrition sector and, consequently, has decided to divest its Active Ingredients & Specialty Chemicals Division .

School Nutrition Experts Call For Child Nutrition Funding And Uniform Nutrition Standards (Medical News Today)
Early next month, more than 700 school nutrition professionals will discuss the crisis in funding for school meal programs and urge the Congress to require science-based, yet practical, uniform national school nutrition standards to govern the sale of all foods and beverages available during the school day.

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Prognosis is bright for Google’s health records plan (USA Today)
Google’s attempt to build a home for personal health records online could potentially make the ads more lucrative than Web search, a top equity analyst says.

Tysabri May Cause Liver Damage, Health Officials Say (HealthDay via Yahoo! News)
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 27 (HealthDay News) — The controversial multiple sclerosis drug Tysabri can start causing liver damage within six days of the first dose, U.S. health officials said Wednesday.

U.S. Health Care Spending to Double by 2017, Report Predicts (MedicineNet.com)
Title: U.S. Health Care Spending to Double by 2017, Report Predicts Category: Health News Created: 2/27/2008 2:00:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 2/27/2008

Health Highlights: Feb. 26, 2008 (MedicineNet.com)
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UCLA launches network to study health care disparities affecting minorities (EurekAlert!)
Understand how social, ethnic, linguistic and economic factors affect the way health care providers serve minority populations. Study how personal, cultural and social factors promote or impede adequate health care and disease management.

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Toddlers diet unhealthy: study (The West Australian)
Australian toddlers are eating too much salty, calorie-rich food and missing out on fibre and some essential nutrients, a landmark diet study has found.

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RECIPE FINDER: Diet Workshop Bread Pudding (Las Cruces Sun-News)
Karen Roach of Catonsville, Md., was looking for the Diet Workshop recipe for bread pudding. She said it was great for breakfast. Phyllis Seward of Glen Burnie, Md., sent in a recipe from a Diet Workshop recipe booklet she had, and it sounds like it could be the one that Roach wanted.

Come Into My Kitchen: Korean diet focuses on vegetables, fruit (The Kansas City Star)
Samhui Sam Mitchell needs no coaxing to eat all her vegetables. Mitchell, a native Korean, says her Asian-based diet isn t centered on meat.

Marion team has diet for success (The Gazette)
DES MOINES and#8212; As he ushered three of the Marion Indians to the media room Tuesday, Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union staffer Jason Eslinger made an offer."Would anyone like something to drink? Pop?" he said.The response was unanimous: Thanks, but no thanks."Diet is everything for an athlete," said senior Jacqueline Kane. "If you drink pop, you’re going to be a couple laps behind."So …

Cut the sugar from your diet (The Olympian)
Nutritionist Ann Louise Gittleman offers tons of tips on low-sugar shopping, cook ing and dining in "Get the Sugar Out: 501 Simple Ways to Cut the Sugar Out of Any Diet" (Three Rivers Press, $13.95).

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Doctor’s death is not suspicious (BBC News)
A consultant anaesthetist is found dead in a car park at the Hampshire hospital where he had worked for 25 years.

South Africa: Doctor’s Conduct to Be Investigated - Premier (AllAfrica.com)
An investigation is to be launched into allegations of a Northern Cape doctor refusing to give a patient with a head injury medical attention and instead tended to an injured dog, says Premier Dipuo Peters.

Doctor at centre of sexual mutilation storm dubbed ‘Australia’s Harold Shipman’ (Daily Mail)
He may not be a killer, but a rogue doctor in Australia at the centre of a sexual mutilation storm, has been likened to Britain’s mass murderer Dr Harold Shipman. Like Shipman, Dr Graeme Reeves is accused of bringing disgrace to the medical profession after hundreds of women told horrifying stories of what he did to them when they placed themselves at his mercy

Complaints surge after banned doctor exposed (News Interactive)
COMPLAINTS have doubled from patients and their families about a doctor accused of injuring or indecently assaulting scores of women, or carrying out unnecessary and sometimes horrific gynaecological procedures between 1993 and 2002.

Kidney scam: Doctor, another accused record statement in Delhi court (New Kerala)
New Delhi, Feb 24 : Kidney transplant racket kingpin Amit Kumar’s doctor aide and a tout allegedly involved in the case recorded their statements in a nine-hour-long proceeding in a Delhi court.

Zimbabwe: Brain Drain Shatters Aspiring Doctor’s Dream (AllAfrica.com)
TINASHE Mangunda’s dream was to become a medical doctor. Her parents even struggled to raise money to pay a private tutor for her during school holidays.

How a doctor s visit can be harmful, not healthy (ABC 15 Phoenix)
See if your medical facility is overdue for inspection using the searchable database below. Going to the doctor’s office is scary enough. The last thing any patient needs is something else to worry about.

Miss. court reinstates wrongful death case against Cleveland doctor (WMCTV Memphis)
Associated Press - February 25, 2008 5:14 AM ET JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The Mississippi Supreme Court is reinstating a wrongful death case against a Cleveland doctor.

UTMB presents Doctor s Dilemma’ (Galveston County Daily News)
GALVESTON Dr. C. Joan Richardson, chief of medical staff at the University of Texas Medical Branch, will join seven other UTMB faculty members and six medical and graduate students in a dramatic reading of George Bernard Shaw s The Doctor s Dilemma on Nov. 20.

Public appalled as doctor de-registered in 2004 is accused of mutilating women (News-Medical-Net)
As more and more complaints continue to appear regarding the behaviour of a Sydney doctor many are appalled that he continued to practice after being struck off the medical register.