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Cost and effectiveness of Maine health care eyed (Boston Globe)
A new update of Maine’s state health plan points to a variety of factors complicating the effort to make Maine’s the nation’s healthiest state.

Coventry Health profit up 3 percent (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Insurer Coventry Health Care Inc posted a 3 percent first-quarter profit increase on Friday, matching Wall Street estimates, helped by higher membership.

Opening Glance: Tenet up as health care stocks rise (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
Shares of health care providers and service companies are rising in morning trading, with hospital operator Tenet jumping after an analyst upgraded the stock.

Survey: LocalHealthOfficials Worry About Climate Change

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iLinc Web Conferencing Software Helps Creighton University’s Doctor of Pharmacy Program Graduate More Students (Centre Daily Times)
When Creighton University launched the nation’s first Web-based entry-level doctor of pharmacy program in 2001 it didn’t have the powerful Web collaboration tools it needed to satisfy the distance-learning students’ needs. A Jesuit university located in Omaha, Neb., the school’s Web conferencing technology allowed for some basic features, but offered very little interactivity beyond the basics. …

Largo doctor arrested a SECOND time! (WTSP - Tampa Bay’s 10 News)
It’s happend again with the same doctor from Largo. Dr. Kayode Sotonwa was put in handcuffs Thursday, arrested on sexual battery charges.

Dallas doctor at center of illegal prescription busts (WFAA Dallas-Fort Worth)
DALLAS - Police say one doctor was behind hundreds of people illegally having easy access to addictive drugs like hydrocodone. Authorities swooped in Thursday to shut down Houston clinics they say were prescribing pills illegally at pain clinics in Houston.

New allegations against accused doctor (FOX 13 Tampa Bay)
There are new allegations against a Pinellas County doctor arrested for allegedly molesting indigent patients.

CrazyDietStories. I know you have them.

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Did Star Trek orDoctorWho Mold Your Brain?

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School meal price increase is one way to balance nutrition budget (WBIR-TV Knoxville)
Knox County Schools won’t skimp on nutrition as food costs rise, but students will probably have to pay more for lunch.

Good Nutrition Begins Early (Tyler Morning Telegraph)
EDITOR S NOTE: This article was adapted from www.Parenting.com . 2007 by The Parenting Group Inc. Used by permission. You ve heard about the growing rates of childhood obesity, and you probably know that a healthy diet and lots of exercise can prevent kids from becoming overweight.

Nutrition program to distribute $45K in vouchers (The Pottsville Republican & Herald)
Diakon Lutheran Social Ministries will again administer its Senior Farm Market Nutrition Program for Schuylkill County senior citizens with low- to mid-level incomes.

Bite Size Video’s New DVD Feeds Pregnant Women Nutrition Knowledge (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
Kara Korhonen, registered dietitian (RD) and host of the new DVD Nutrition During Pregnancy, serves up expertise and wit in equal portions, providing expectant mothers with the recipe for a healthy baby.

Alltech opens Center for Animal Nutrigenomics and Applied Animal Nutrition (Pravda)
Alltech Inc ., one of the industry leaders in the animal feed industry, opened on April 20, 2008, a research center to study the influence of nutrition on gene expression.

Planet Nutrition’s Proposed Acquisition Extreme Fitness Inc. Announces GSA Contracts (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
Planet Nutrition Holdings Inc.’s proposed acquisition Extreme Fitness Inc. has recently received 2 GSA (U.S. General Service Administration) Contracts. GSA Contracts #’s GS-03F-0028U GS-03F-0027U.

Experts say mother s diet can influence her child s gender (The Herald)
It seems you are what your mother ate. If you want a girl, diet - and stay off the breakfast cereal. The first direct evidence that a child’s gender is associated with its mother’s eating habits has been discovered, experts said today.

Study: Diet can affect baby’s sex (WABC-TV New York)
A study shows that a woman’s diet may influence the sex of her baby.

Child’s sex is associated with the mother’s diet (News-Medical-Net)
New research by the Universities of Exeter and Oxford provides the first evidence that a child’s sex is associated with the mother’s diet. Published today (23 April 2008), in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, the study shows a clear link between higher energy intake around the time of conception and the birth of sons.

High calorie diet linked to boys (BBC News)
A woman’s diet around the time of conception may influence the gender of her baby, research suggests.

FDA to limit distribution of diet pills by hospitals, clinics (Bangkok Post - Thailand’s English news)
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will limit the distribution of diet pills by state hospitals and private clinics following the suicide of a bank employee. Officials suspect she was suffering from depression caused by misuse of diet pills.

Find the diet that suits you best (Dayton Daily News)
Q I started a weight loss program in January and calculated the number of calories I should be eating to lose weight. Despite watching my diet and working out, I still don’t see much difference.

Fielder’s diet a hot topic (MLB.com)
Fielder’s diet a hot topic

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Vegetable diet cuts heart attack risk (The Times of India)
NEW DELHI: A 24-year-long American study has offered the strongest evidence yet to show that a diet rich in vegetables, low on animal protein and moderate intake of low-fat dairy products cuts chances of heart attack in middle-aged women by nearly a quarter.

Students learn what it means to be an ‘orphan’ (Daily Herald)
It wasn’t living off a diet of mainly bread and water that really bothered Isaiah Fasoldt. Instead, it was the rain at night that really upset the Wheaton College freshman.

Heart disease linked to bad diet, urine shows (Daily Telegraph)
The leading cause of heart disease and stroke has been linked for the first time to a person’s diet and chemicals in the urine.

A new doctor worth his salt; sippy-cup sups for toddlers (USA Today)
This week’s mailbag finds readers in search of the right beverage for a toddler, the right diet for a vulnerable heart and the right doctor for a relocating patient.

Daylong autism conference to touch on diet, drugs (El Paso Times)
The Southwest Chapter of the Autism Society of America will present a daylong conference on autism called "Critical Connections: A Blended Approach to Treating Autism and Related Disorders."

The 100-Mile Diet is 2008 One Book, One Community reading selection (Kitchener/Waterloo Record)
The 100-Mile Diet was unveiled as the 2008 One Book, One Community reading selection at the Farmers’ Market Saturday.

Diet and fitness: it’s child’s play (Daily Telegraph)
Becky Pugh samples chaos training, a new fitness craze that is more party game than punishing regime.

Tackling 100-Mile Diet easier said than done (Kitchener/Waterloo Record)
KITCHENER (Apr 21, 2008) — Kareem Shehata travels more than his food does.

A healthy diet minimises injuries (The New Straits Times)
ALL our articles in the past have stressed the importance of a healthy diet for athletes. While the focus has been on the types of food that should be taken in daily, perhaps I should bring the effects closer to home.

The Weekend’s TV: Pulling, Sun, BBC3 Gavin & Stacey, Sun, BBC3 Doctor Who, Sat, BBC1 (Independent)
You may feel it’s a little late to mention it but Pulling isn’t half bad. And if that sounds a little grudging as a recommendation it’s probably because I’m still getting over the reflexive flinch I gave when I first saw it. The episode in question began with Donna (the lovely Sharon Horgan) administering desultory hand-relief to her gormless boyfriend, Karl, and watching this scene I marked …

Eye doctor’s office focuses on patient comfort - In Your Space (The Plain Dealer)
Understanding that most patients feel uneasy upon entering a doctor’s office, Dr. Darrell White designed Skyvision Centers of Westlake to achieve the opposite effect.

Sit back and dial a doctor (The Star-Ledger)
Reeling from abdominal pain one recent morning, Diann Isola dreaded the thought of dragging herself to the local hospital emergency room. "You wait for hours and you never know what you are going to catch in the waiting room," said the 45-year-old Kinnelon resident.

Sexual Contact Lawsuit Against Doctor Set For Trial (KELO Sioux Falls)
A civil lawsuit filed in 2005 by a Pine Ridge woman accusing an Indian Health Services doctor of sexual contact is set for trial.

Prescriptions swiped from doctor’s office (Northwest Florida Daily News)
FORT WALTON BEACH Fake prescriptions may be circling town after 5,000 scripts disappeared from a doctor s office here. Several drugs are missing, too. Sometime earlier this month, between April 8 and April 9, lawmen say someone entered through a window of Dr. Antonio Larranga Jr. s office on Garnett Avenue. Missing from inside were: - A case of prescription pads (50 tablets …

‘Porn doctor’ turns epic writer (The Times of India)
L Prakash, the orthopaedic doctor who found the lure of flesh more rewarding than the science of bones, is today practising other skills.

Hospital doctor is in hiding after death of newborn baby (Times Online)
A doctor is likely to be struck off the medical register after he fled to Bosnia following his arrest on suspicion of killing a baby girl, The Times has learnt.