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Harvard Med changes how it reviews applicants of color
Boston Globe, United States - Apr 3, 2006… Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center’s obesity surgery program is the first in Massachusetts to receive accreditation from the American College of Surgeons …

Call for tax-cash for kids’ obesity ops
Stuff.co.nz, New Zealand - Apr 15, 2006… America has paediatric surgeons dedicated to obesity surgery and in Australia, an estimated 50-60 children as young as 12 have had lap-band surgery. …

Bariatric Surgery: Medicare, Will Now Cough Up For Throwing …
MedIndia, India - Mar 27, 2006For the first time, Medicare will pick up the tabs for three types of obesity surgery, in cases where obesity has led to prolonged health problems. …

South Beach Diet creator to address obesity conferees
Tampa Bay Business Journal, FL - Apr 18, 2006… Advances in drug therapies, obesity and insulin resistance, obesity surgery, and the link between excess weight in childhood and adult cardiovascular disease …

CALL FOR CHILD OBESITY SURGERY TO BE PUBLICLY FUNDED
TMCnet - Apr 15, 2006… publicly-funded. He believed obesity surgery for children — which could cost up to $20,000 — should be funded by Government. Obese …

Obesity surgery beneficial
2TheAdvocate, LA - Apr 26, 2006By TED GRIGGS. It s too early to tell whether gastric bypass surgery will save Louisiana money in the long run, but 40 state workers …

Obesity and technology: Can the stomach be fooled?
Reuters.uk, UK - Apr 26, 2006… Mitchell Roslin, chief of obesity surgery at New York’s Lenox Hill Hospital, led the clinical trial testing Cyberonics Inc.’s Vagus Nerve Stimulation to treat …

Nip-tuck tourism growing in Colombia
Montreal Gazette - BOGOTA, Colombia — It’s normal to return from vacation with a deep tan, but what about coming home with bigger breasts, a newly sculpted nose, a nip and tuck and some wrinkle removal. Vacations promising such corporeal transformations are being

When the shoe doesn’t fit: the tyranny of the open-toed shoe
Macleans - The high-priced end of Canadian shoe heaven lives on the mezzanine floor of Toronto’s Holt Renfrew store on Bloor Street. Which is as good a place as any to illustrate the problems most women will face when shoe-shopping this season. There sit the

FDA to seek outside aid on safety
Science Daily - WASHINGTON, April 7 (UPI) — The FDA is planning to use outside medical experts to help review the safety of critical heart devices like defibrillators already on the market. This would be the first time the U.S. Food and Drug Administration agency

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Local news briefs 
A 25-year-old Wausau man has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison in connection to a 2004 burglary at a Ringle bar. In addition, Chue Neng Lee Vang was sentenced to five years of extended supervision for burglary, battery to a law officer and first-degree reckless endangerment.

Area News Briefs 
Pinewood Derby today at East Valley Middle School The second annual statewide Cub Scout Pinewood Derby will be held at East Valley Middle School on today, April 22.

Gigantic Meat-eating Dinosaur Discovered 
At a news conference in the western Patagonian city where the news species was found, paleontologists have unveiled what may be one of the largest carnivorous dinosaurs known — Mapusaurus roseae. Hundreds of Mapusaurus bones were found in sandstone 100 million years old. The remains include what may be one of the biggest meat-eating dinosaurs known, slightly larger than its older cousin,

Things to do in the Northwoods 
Thurs., April 20 PLAY: A SENSE OF WONDER - A Sense of Wonder, a one-woman play about Rachel Carson’s writings has been the centerpiece of regional and national conferences on conservation. It’s part of the Earth Week Celebration.

Health calendar 
Bringing Hawaiian Health Traditions in Balance with Contemporary Life, talk by native Hawaiian healing practitioner, Kauila Clark, 12:30-1:30 p.m. today, Windward Community College, Hale Akoakoa 101; free. 236-9146.

Things to do in the Northwoods 
BLOOD DRIVE - The Community Blood Center, 1575 Hwy. 51 N., Arbor Vitae is open for blood donations from 9 a.m. to noon. Thurs., April 20 PLAY: A SENSE OF WONDER - A Sense of Wonder, a one-woman play about Rachel Carson’s writings has been the centerpiece of regional and national conferences on conservation.