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Baltimore Health Official to Lead District’s Health Department (Washington Post)
D.C. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty today appointed Pierre Vigilance, who has led the Baltimore County Department of Health since 2005, as director of the District’s troubled Health Department.

Magellan Health Profit May Miss Views (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
Magellan Health Services Inc., a health care management company, said Friday its 2008 earnings per share may miss Wall Street analysts’ estimates.

Google Previews Google Health (PC World via Yahoo! News)
Google shed more light on the health care service it is developing with several screenshots of what it will look like.

Health Highlights: Feb. 29, 2008 (HealthDay via Yahoo! News)
Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of HealthDay:

New EU Health Commissioner Nominated (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
The European Commission said Friday that former Cypriot first lady Androula Vassiliou had been nominated to become the new EU commissioner in charge of health issues.

Google’s Rx for Health Data (BusinessWeek)
Its new site is a different approach to health-care data than Microsoft’s HealthVault service. Cooperation may be key to the success of both

Universal Health Shares Up on 4Q Profit (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
Shares of hospital operator Universal Health Services Inc. rose Friday after the company topped Wall Street’s fourth-quarter profit expectations and set 2008 guidance mostly above forecasts.

Poll: Broad Support for Requiring Health Coverage (NPR)
Morning Edition , February 29, 2008 A new poll on health care from NPR, the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health finds that a majority of Americans are backing key elements in the health reform proposals of Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.

Poll: Broad Support for Requiring Health Coverage (NPR)
A poll from NPR, the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health reveals Americans’ attitudes toward requiring that everyone have health coverage.

Prognosis is bright for Google’s health records plan (USATODAY.com via Yahoo! News)
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.

Google previews Google Health (InfoWorld via Yahoo! News)
Google shed more light on the health care service it is developing, showing off a couple of screenshots of what it will look like.

Google Previews Google Health (PC World via Yahoo! News)
Google shed more light on the health care service it is developing with several screenshots of what it will look like.

Prognosis is bright for Google’s health records plan (USATODAY.com via Yahoo! News)
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.

Health care for mom-pop workers, too (New York Daily News)
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn unveiled a $4.9million program Thursday to allow small businesses in Queens and Manhattan to offer low-cost health insurance - like their Brooklyn brethren already do.

Health Highlights: Feb. 28, 2008 (HealthDay via Yahoo! News)
Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of HealthDay:

Rogue doctor tracked down to NSW (Stuff)
A doctor who disappeared from a Queensland hospital after an inquiry into his botched operations in New Zealand is considering taking up bricklaying.

What to expect from your doctor (CNN.com)
Dr. Joan Harrold once had to tell a relative that he should fire his doctor.

Disgraced doctor saga continues (TVNZ)
Australia is reeling after details of another horrific case in the disgraced Wanganui doctor Roman Hasil, saga continues. Dubbed the Butcher of Bega, the doctor is alleged to have mutilated, sexually assaulted or molested his patients while working at a small New South Wales hospital.

Doctor: It’s a cover-up (Daily Telegraph)
A DOCTOR on the front line has hit out at the head of the Northern Beaches Health Service, saying he is attempting to cover up bed shortages at Manly Hospital.

British judge grants Lufkin doctor’s bail (The Lufkin Daily News)
A Lufkin doctor facing a charge in England for allegedly killing a patient 10 years ago has arrived in England where a judge has granted her bail, said the doctor’s attorney Thursday.

SDSU offers cow nutrition training sessions (Tri-State Neighbor)
BROOKINGS, S.D. - Livestock experts will present two training sessions addressing cow nutrition at calving and herd health Feb. 22 and March 14. The Feb. 22 event will take place from 1 to 3 p.m. at the 4-H building, 604 Second St. N.E., Wessington Springs, S.D. The session is free of charge.

Clark Memorial Hospital offers free family nutrition seminar on Saturday (Louisville Courier-Journal)
Doors will open at 10:15 a.m. Saturday for a free nutrition seminar at Clark Memorial Hospital, 1220 Missouri Ave. in Jeffersonville. The seminar will be in the lower-level conference room.

About 200, including Murdock, attend nutrition lecture in Cannon Village (Independent Tribune)
KANNAPOLIS - Dr. Steve Zeisel lectured about nutrition, but it wasn’t to his graduate students. About 200 people showed up Tuesday at the old Cabarrus Bank building in Cannon Village to hear Zeisel, director of the UNC Nutrition Research Institute, talk about choline, an essential nutrient necessary for healthy brain development. It was the first lecture in the institute’s Appetite for Life …

Nutrition program menus, week of 03.03.08 (Muskogee Phoenix)
MCCAP Management Group Inc., provides noon meals Monday through Friday: Douglas Community Center, 602 Indianapolis St.; Wheatley Community Center, 500 Dayton, Fair Haven; Honor Heights Tower, 300 N. 40th St.; Fort Gibson; Haskell; Boynton and Webbers Falls.

Youth receive $3,000 for nutrition program (Kern Valley Sun)
Jeanette Rogers representing the Kern Community Foundation presented the Kern River Valley Youth Center on Monday, Feb. 11 with a check for $3,000. The money is to help fund the youth center’s nutrition and fitness program.

Nutrition for Life (Richfield Reaper)
(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.

Diet & Nutrition I 2008 Feature Releases (wallstreet:online AG)
The following releases focus on the topic Diet & Nutrition I ALL TIME-OFFS ARE IN EASTERN

Diet & Nutrition I 2008 Feature Releases (Centre Daily Times)
The following releases focus on the topic Diet & Nutrition I

Nutrition Label Reading Made Easy (Washington Post)
Are Cheerios better to eat than shredded wheat? Is whole-wheat bread a wiser choice than rye or pumpernickel? How does orange juice stack up against pomegranate and V8? And if the choice at the vending machine is between pretzels, trail mix or a granola bar, which is the best buy?

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.

Doctor to face charges of murdering husband (Kenya Broadcasting Corporation)
A doctor suspected of murdering her husband will face murder charges after the high court declined to grant an order that sought to stop her prosecution.

Strike force to probe ‘genital mutilation’ doctor (ABC via Yahoo!7 News)
Police have set up a strike force to investigate allegations a former New South Wales doctor sexually abused women and mutilated their genitals during operations.

No checks done on banned doctor (Sydney Morning Herald)
A DEREGISTERED doctor was able to illegally attend 36 obstetric patients at two South Coast public hospitals - despite being banned from the specialty five years earlier - because the NSW Health Department failed to conduct background checks on him.

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 …

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.

Diet & Nutrition I 2008 Feature Releases (Centre Daily Times)
The following releases focus on the topic Diet & Nutrition I

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.

Cardiologist says diet exercise are the best medicine to ward off heart disease (The Demopolis Times)
DEMOPOLIS The old adage an apple a day keeps the doctor away, may be true, but cardiologist Dr. John Mantle said the best way to stave off visits to the physician is proper diet, exercising and avoiding smoking.

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.

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).

Diet & Nutrition I 2008 Feature Releases (wallstreet:online AG)
The following releases focus on the topic Diet & Nutrition I ALL TIME-OFFS ARE IN EASTERN

How’s your diet working so far? (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
Chances are the diet you started on Jan. 1 is already history. No wonder: You gave up everything you love and ate everything you loathe. A diet like that is the definition of deprivation.

Dodgy doctor left a trail in Australia (Newstalk ZB via Yahoo!Xtra News)
The doctor responsible for a series of botched operations at Whanganui Hospital is being investigated in Australia.

‘Mutilation doctor’ complaints surge (The Age)
Board defends handling of doctor despite almost 800 complaints.

Sexual Assault Allegations Against Duluth Doctor (Northland’s News Center)
Several witnesses took the witness stand in Douglas County Court Tuesday, all alleging they were sexually assaulted by a Duluth doctor. LeAnn Wallace attended the motion hearing today, and has more.

Former HRMC doctor’s lawsuit claims mistakes led to 2 deaths (Asheville Citizen-Times)
A patient’s intravenous needle was left dripping onto the floor, another patient went without prescribed antibiotics for three days and one woman told a doctor she feared the nursing staff, a former Haywood Regional Medical Center doctor said in a…

Government sorry over ‘mutilation doctor’ (Daily Telegraph)
THE NSW Government is sorry - but it can’t explain why - a banned doctor was able to do surgery which allegedy left women mutilated.

Strike force to probe ‘genital mutilation’ doctor (ABC via Yahoo!7 News)
Police have set up a strike force to investigate allegations a former New South Wales doctor sexually abused women and mutilated their genitals during operations.

‘Mutilation’ doctor probe (Sydney Morning Herald)
Strike force to investigate complaints of some of the 800 women allegedly mutilated by struck-off doctor.

Diet has helped some epileptic children (The Post and Courier)
LAFAYETTE, Calif. Without hesitation, Cathy Holt can tell you how long it has been since Noah’s latest seizure.

Pfizer pulls Lipitor ads featuring artificial heart inventor (The Pantagraph)
WASHINGTON, D.C. — When “diet and exercise isn’t enough,” Pfizer still wants consumers to ask their doctor about Lipitor just not Dr. Robert Jarvik.

Kate Moss’s new diet guru - Sadie Frost’s mother (New Kerala)
London, Feb 25 : Sadie Frost’s mother, Mary Davidson has taken up the responsibility to ensure that Kate Moss follows a healthy eating regime.

Do Whole Grains Fight Belly Fat? (CBS News)
A diet rich in whole grains may help fight your belly bulge while lowering the risk of heart disease.

Judge to dole out diet-drug settlement (Louisville Courier-Journal)
James McPherson has a litany of complaints about the three lawyers who handled a $200 million settlement over the diet drug fen-phen on behalf of him and more than 400 others. "I don’t think this has ever been fair and I don’t think it ever can be," McPherson said.

Pfizer Pulls Jarvik Lipitor Ads (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
When "diet and exercise isn’t enough," Pfizer still wants consumers to ask their doctor about Lipitor — just not Dr. Robert Jarvik.

Diet change gives hyperactive kids new taste for life in Norway (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Tears streak Rita’s cheek as she recalls what it was like trying to figure out what was wrong with her son more than a decade ago, but she breaks into a smile when she explains how changing his diet made all the difference.

Nutrition for Life (McKinney Messenger)
(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.

SDSU offers cow nutrition training sessions (Tri-State Neighbor)
BROOKINGS, S.D. - Livestock experts will present two training sessions addressing cow nutrition at calving and herd health Feb. 22 and March 14. The Feb. 22 event will take place from 1 to 3 p.m. at the 4-H building, 604 Second St. N.E., Wessington Springs, S.D. The session is free of charge.

Youth receive $3,000 for nutrition program (Kern Valley Sun)
Jeanette Rogers representing the Kern Community Foundation presented the Kern River Valley Youth Center on Monday, Feb. 11 with a check for $3,000. The money is to help fund the youth center’s nutrition and fitness program.

Healthy Food Means Struggles For School Nutrition Programs (FOX 29 Lake Charles)
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — School officials would rather see children eat more apples and oranges and fewer french fries, but the fruit is more expensive and that is leading to struggles for child-nutrition programs statewide.

Healthy lifestyle, good nutrition highlighted in program (The Steubenville Herald-Star)
TORONTO A free program emphasizing good nutrition and healthy lifestyle choices will continue at 6 p.m. Wednesday at Season s Pediatric at Fran s Wellness Center, 1011 Franklin Ave.

Kardea Nutrition Launches Natural Cholesterol Management Alternative (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
Kardea Nutrition is launching a system of natural foods and quality supplements that helps people easily follow a diet that can significantly improve their cholesterol levels without prescription medications.

Using Healthy Foods Means Struggles For School Nutrition Programs (WITN 7 North Carolina)
School officials want children to eat more fruit and fewer french fries, but the fruit costs more and that’s causing problems for child-nutrition programs statewide.

IN THE KITCHEN: The American diet and how it got that way (Princeton Packet)
By now, many of us have read or heard this mantra from the cover of In Defense of Food, Michael Pollan s latest book: Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

Tonight at Ten - The High Carb Diet (KAKE)
The hottest fad in weight loss has dieters doing a 180 from a few years ago - instead of no-carbs, some Kansans are packing on the carbs to drop the pounds and getting great results. Tonight at ten: KAKE’s Susan Peters dishes up the skinny on the new road to thin - The Hi Carb Diet.

Diet change gives hyperactive kids new taste for life in Norway (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Tears streak Rita’s cheek as she recalls what it was like trying to figure out what was wrong with her son more than a decade ago, but she breaks into a smile when she explains how changing his diet made all the difference.

Diet has helped some epileptic children (The Post and Courier)
LAFAYETTE, Calif. Without hesitation, Cathy Holt can tell you how long it has been since Noah’s latest seizure.