Word: dr.
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...popular Legian area, where a foul stench permeates the strip of bars and clubs along the Double Six Road, the roaming gangs of dogs that have been fixtures in that area pose a new threat. "Now the risk is to stray dogs because they are more aggressive," says Dr. Wita Wahyu, director of the Bali Street Dog Foundation. "And if they are infected, they will bite anything that moves...
UPDATE: Kennedy's office released a statement from his doctor in the early evening. It quoted Dr. Edward Aulisi, chairman of neurosurgery at Washington Hospital Center as saying that "after testing, we believe the incident was brought on by simple fatigue." In the statement, Aulisi added: "[Kennedy] will remain ... overnight for observation, and will be released in the morning...
...less hours will make it look like his job is too easy - which would make him more dispensable." She says she will probably skip her annual overseas holiday this year out of fear she'll be replaced. "People used to complain about the long work hours," says Hsinchu psychiatrist Dr. Chen Sung-Wei. "Now they fear that forced vacation days are an omen of worse days to come." Hsinchu psychiatrists like Chen say they've seen their patient rolls rise 20% recently because of the strain that workers are suffering...
...preliminary, they do point to an entirely new way that doctors and patients might be able to tackle the growing obesity epidemic in the U.S. "This study suggests that the differences in the organisms may play at least some role in why people lose the weight they do," says Dr. John DiBaise, a gastroenterologist at the Mayo Clinic and one of the study's authors. "Ultimately, we may not only be able to manipulate the microbes of obese individuals to look like those of normal-weight people, but we might also potentially be able to predict a person's susceptibility...
...their gut flora changes - as it did with the gastric-bypass patients. What's more, notwithstanding the seeming cause-and-effect link between gut flora and weight, that relationship can be deceiving; a third factor entirely may be causing both - a diet of highly processed foods, for instance, suggests Dr. David Katz, director of the Yale Prevention Research Center. What's more, says Katz, "regardless of the variation of gut flora in the population, the entire population is getting heavy. So probiotics might tweak one's personal vulnerability to obesity, but they would not much move the big dial...