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Friday, June 3, 2005

Government wants to prevent fat kids

Choose food portions no larger than your fist. Eat "go foods" -- like lowfat milk, oatmeal and veggies -- every day and save chips and other "whoa foods" for special occasions. This advice is part of a new government campaign to use kid-friendly nutrition tips to prevent preteens from getting fat.

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Docs move to states that cap malpractice

Doctors are gravitating to states that enact caps on malpractice awards, even though such awards are not the primary cause of skyrocketing insurance premiums, according to two studies.
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Study: Cigarettes targeted women

Tobacco companies designed cigarettes to appeal to women's desires to be thin and healthy in ways that went "far beyond marketing and advertising," health researchers said.
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AHA: Either bypass method works

Heart bypass patients fare about the same no matter which of two surgery methods doctors use, concludes an American Heart Association review of more than four dozen studies.
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Peru's 'miracle baby' doing well

Doctors gave the world a look at 13-month-old Milagros Cerron since separating her fused legs in the second such successful operation on record to correct "mermaid syndrome."
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