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Obesity in children is increasing and many cardiovascular diseases that are manifested in adulthood may actually begin in childhood. ... Study findings presented at the May 2008 Pediatric Academic Societies and Asian Society for Pediatric Research Joint Meeting indicate...
By Darrell Hughes, The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, S.C. May 11--Practicing cardiovascular medicine may have public prestige, but it's a tough life to live. Cardiologist Jerry Watson juggles the 60-plus hours he works each week with his family time. ... Watson's workdays at...
The women from Celebration Lutheran Church in Puyallup gathered Saturday morning in the middle of Commerce Street in downtown Tacoma for pre-marathon race photographs. ... White said they’d been training for the Tacoma City Marathon races since January, running as a...
Spanish health authorities launched a virtual portal through the Second Life website yesterday designed to help young people too embarrassed to speak to a doctor about sexually transmitted disease or a drug problem. ... ... News Type: Event — Seeded on Sun May 11, 2008...
Using audience participation the presenters attempt to identify preferences of the spine surgeons participating in the Low Back Forum as to specific indications for lumbar disc replacement surgery. Based on their findings, the currently FDA released lumbar disc...
Bright Futures for Mobile Devices 2.1This seems a great program with guildlines in child care."Bright Futures for Mobile Devices offers The American Academy of Pediatrics' authoritative guidelines for pediatric well care, including specific recommendations on immunizations, routine health...
Researchers at Columbia University Medical Center have illuminated a window into how abnormalities in microRNAs, a family of molecules that regulate expression of numerous genes, may contribute to the behavioral and neuronal deficits associated with schizophrenia and possibly other brain disorders.
Dr. Maria Valdez has joined North Mississippi Pediatrics P.A. She received her medical degree at the University of the Philippines College of Medicine in Manila, Philippines. She was a research fellow in pediatric cardiology/exercise physiology at the Mount Sinai School...
Nursing in China is keeping up to the world ... On November 10, 2007, the American Academy of Nursing named its fellows for 2007. Dr. Liu Huaping, Dean and Associate Professor of the Peking Union Medical College (PUMC) School of Nursing, is the first Chinese to receive...
In one month, January 2008, 20 kids between the ages of 10 and 13 were referred to the Institute of Psychiatry and Human Behaviour (IPHB), Bambolim, for assessment as they were ‘not up to the mark’ in class. ... This problem is mostly seen amongst kids who shift from...
