Medicare redefines obesity as medical (USATODAY.com)

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Medicare Redefines Obesity As an Illness
(AP)

Medicare Redefines Obesity As an Illness
(AP) 07/16/2004 05:23 AM
AP - Medicare now recognizes obesity as an illness, a change in policy that may allow millions of overweight Americans to make medical claims for treatments such as stomach surgery and diet programs.

Medicare Changes Policy on Obesity
(washingtonpost.com)

Medicare Changes Policy on Obesity
(washingtonpost.com) 07/16/2004 12:04 AM
washingtonpost.com - The federal Medicare program yesterday abandoned a long-standing policy that obesity is not a disease, removing what has been a major roadblock for many people trying to get treatment for the burgeoning health problem.

Medicare Revises Stance on Obesity

Medicare Revises Stance on Obesity 07/19/2004 11:12 AM
Who will benefit from the agency's change in guidelines?

Revised Policy Treats Obesity Under
Medicare (Los Angeles Times)

Revised Policy Treats Obesity Under
Medicare (Los Angeles Times) 07/16/2004 05:23 AM
Los Angeles Times - WASHINGTON — Federal officials Thursday announced a new policy on obesity that could make weight-loss treatments eligible for Medicare coverage.

Indiana Medicare Patients Will Have
Access to Computerized Medical Records

Indiana Medicare Patients Will Have
Access to Computerized Medical Records 07/21/2004 02:32 PM
Technology Review Jul 21 2004 6:36PM GMT

Obesity cost taxpayers $39B in 2003
(USATODAY.com)

Obesity cost taxpayers $39B in 2003
(USATODAY.com) 01/22/2004 09:12 AM
USATODAY.com - Obese Americans - those who are 30 or more pounds over a healthy weight - cost the country about $75 billion in weight-related medical bills in 2003, and taxpayers paid for about half of that, a study revealed Wednesday.

Study ties obesity to increases in
disabilities (USATODAY.com)

Study ties obesity to increases in
disabilities (USATODAY.com) 01/09/2004 09:53 PM
USATODAY.com - The number of disabled Americans in their 30s and 40s increased dramatically over the past 20 years, a study out Thursday says, and the researchers point to obesity as a major contributing factor.

Medicare drug cards rolled out
(USATODAY.com)

Medicare drug cards rolled out
(USATODAY.com) 05/04/2004 06:39 AM
USATODAY.com - Medicare's top official heralded the beginning of "a new era" in the national health program for seniors Monday as government-endorsed drug discount cards became available. Bush administration officials joined Republican congressional leaders in selling the controversial new benefit to sometimes-skeptical older Americans.

Medical-malpractice battle gets personal
(USATODAY.com)

Medical-malpractice battle gets personal
(USATODAY.com) 06/14/2004 06:55 AM
USATODAY.com - There are 73,084 working lawyers in Texas. Selina Leewright never thought that being married to one would cost her her job.

Medical panel to call for more research
on long-term care (USATODAY.com)

Medical panel to call for more research
on long-term care (USATODAY.com) 06/04/2004 05:47 AM
USATODAY.com - Medical experts today will call for new research on the health needs of cancer survivors and for the creation of a national database on the long-term effects of the disease.

Beiks' Medical Dictionary for Windows
Mobile Smartphone Wins Handango "Best
Medical Application" Award

Beiks' Medical Dictionary for Windows
Mobile Smartphone Wins Handango "Best
Medical Application" Award 07/16/2004 03:06 AM
Beiks LLC is proud to announce that its Medical Dictionary for Windows Mobile(r) Smartphone has been named as the winner of Handango’s “Best Medical Application” award in its annual Handango Champion awards, the second consecutive year it has won such an award. [PRWEB Jul 16, 2004]

Hansen Medical Acquires endoVia Medical;
Acquisition to Fortify Intellectual
Property in Support of Hansen's C

Hansen Medical Acquires endoVia Medical;
Acquisition to Fortify Intellectual
Property in Support of Hansen's C 04/14/2005 10:27 AM
Business Wire UK Apr 14 2005 1:41PM GMT

The Medical Minute: Internet medical
searches -- Got information?

The Medical Minute: Internet medical
searches -- Got information? 07/23/2004 07:47 PM
Penn State Live Jul 24 2004 0:13AM GMT

Medical Reference For Non-Medical
Librarians

Medical Reference For Non-Medical
Librarians 11/02/2003 09:46 AM
Medical Reference For Non-Medical Librarians
http://de nison.uchsc.edu/outreach/medbib3.htm#.docdel
An excellent reference resource for non-medcial librarians received from the Virtual Private Library's (VPL) Healthcare Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

Microsoft Redefines Cheating

Microsoft Redefines Cheating 03/22/2005 04:53 PM
How do you stop gamers from using real-world bucks to tip the game? Why stop it at all?

Australia's Largest ISP Redefines Spam

Australia's Largest ISP Redefines Spam 12/03/2003 12:43 AM

'Riddick' redefines Xbox gaming

'Riddick' redefines Xbox gaming 06/24/2004 09:10 PM
Tri-cityherald.com - Wed Jun 23, 04:53 am GMT

Justice memo redefines torture

Justice memo redefines torture 12/31/2004 06:32 PM
Xeni Jardin: The US Justice Department has released a new memo that revises and broadens the definition of torture, replacing a 2002 memo that justified its use to protect national security.

The 17-page document states flatly that torture violates U.S. and international law and omits two of the most controversial assertions made in now-disavowed 2002 Justice Department documents: that President Bush, as commander in chief in wartime, had authority superseding U.S. anti-torture laws and that U.S. personnel had several legal defenses against criminal liability in such cases.

"Consideration of the bounds of any such authority would be inconsistent with the president's unequivocal directive that United States personnel not engage in torture," said the memo from Daniel Levin, acting chief of the Office of Legal Counsel, to Deputy Attorney General James Comey.

Critics in Congress and many legal experts say the original documents set up a legal framework that led to abuses at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, in Afghanistan and at the U.S. prison camp for terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. After the Iraqi prison abuses came to light, the Justice Department in June disavowed its previous legal reasoning and set to work on the replacement document to be released Friday. The Justice Department memo, dated Thursday, was released less than a week before the Senate Judiciary Committee is to consider President Bush's nomination of his chief White House counsel, Alberto Gonzales, to replace John Ashcroft as attorney general.

Link to CBS News story (thanks, Scott Hille), Li nk to NPR (audio) coverage, WaPo, Guardian.

Other News: Apple Redefines
"Immediately"

Other News: Apple Redefines
"Immediately" 07/20/2004 11:27 AM
Chris Breen says "available immediately" means something different to Apple than to the rest of the English-speaking world.

"Japan redefines 'self-defense'"

"Japan redefines 'self-defense'" 02/10/2004 04:15 PM

Review: 'Manhunt' Redefines Game
Violence

Review: 'Manhunt' Redefines Game
Violence 01/28/2004 12:04 AM
San Jose Mercury News Jan 28 2004 4:13AM GMT

'Manhunt' Redefines Video Game Violence
(AP)

'Manhunt' Redefines Video Game Violence
(AP) 01/27/2004 06:24 PM
AP - The creators of "Manhunt" have succeeded in making a game that's often gruesome, disgusting and shocking, plus numbingly repetitive and murderously difficult.

Dave Duffield Redefines Long Term As
Less Than Three Months

Dave Duffield Redefines Long Term As
Less Than Three Months 12/28/2004 07:08 PM
It's unlikely to surprise just about anyone, but Dave Duffield won't stick around to be a part of Oracle, now that the PeopleSoft deal is set. He apparently put in his resignation last week after just a couple months on the job. When he came in, following the firing of Craig Conway in October, many assumed he was brought in to sell the company to Oracle. He quickly claimed that he had no intention of selling to Oracle, which lasted less than two months before he agreed to sell to Oracle. Now that that's done, there's no reason for him to stick around. Apparently his statement: "I'm here for the long term," was open to interpretation. Of course, in an age when Wall Street judges a company's "long term" prospects based on their quarterly performance, perhaps this does meet the definition of long term these days.

Justice Dept. Memo Redefines 'Torture'
(washingtonpost.com)

Justice Dept. Memo Redefines 'Torture'
(washingtonpost.com) 12/31/2004 08:31 PM
expands the definition .. WaPo

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Amd Set to Deliver New Processor Family
That Redefines Everyday Computing

Amd Set to Deliver New Processor Family
That Redefines Everyday Computing 06/07/2004 08:58 AM
PA News via The Scotsman Online Jun 7 2004 1:28PM GMT

GAME REVIEW: 'Riddick' redefines Xbox
gaming

GAME REVIEW: 'Riddick' redefines Xbox
gaming 06/23/2004 08:33 PM
Sacbee.com - Wed Jun 23, 02:10 am GMT

Video game review: 'Riddick' redefines
Xbox gaming

Video game review: 'Riddick' redefines
Xbox gaming 06/22/2004 08:18 PM
Newshub.com - Tue Jun 22, 06:46 pm GMT

The obesity racket

The obesity racket 05/01/2004 12:48 AM
The Guardian has recently published excerpts from a new book by Paul Campos entitled The Obesity Myth. The book argues that the claim so often repeated by your TV, that two thirds of the population of the United States is "overweight" or "obese," is an elaborate hoax designed to move the product. From the perspective of a profit-maximising medical and pharmaceutical industry, the ideal disease would be one that never killed those who suffered from it, that could not be treated effectively, and that doctors and their patients would nevertheless insist on treating anyway.

What can be done to beat obesity?

What can be done to beat obesity? 05/26/2004 05:45 AM
MPs are set to criticise the UK government's record on tackling obesity as world experts gather in Prague to discuss the epidemic. What should be done?

The Obesity Myth

The Obesity Myth 04/28/2004 02:29 PM
Time to blow the whistle. Is the "obesity epidemic" a medical emergency, or a big fat lie? Paul Campos says it's time to tell the truth.

The Riddle of Obesity

The Riddle of Obesity 05/10/2004 05:46 PM
Call it what you will, an American obesity crisis or a fatness epidemic, many of the unhealthy pounds are found in children.

Insights on how obesity kills

Insights on how obesity kills 05/09/2004 06:30 PM
Straits Times May 9 2004 11:12PM GMT

Can Obesity Fatten Your Wallet?

Can Obesity Fatten Your Wallet? 04/06/2005 03:44 PM
Part Two of our look at obesity as an increasingly serious health problem looks at companies behind radical treatments -- backlash against the food industry.

Obesity Can Be Real Headache

Obesity Can Be Real Headache 04/16/2005 09:18 PM
Sci-Tech Today Apr 17 2005 2:09AM GMT

Its obesity talk time, again.

Its obesity talk time, again. 07/21/2004 04:40 PM
Its obesity talk time, again. "Once the fried dough embodiment of hot and fresh, Krispy Kreme has transformed its original glazed doughnut into a new frozen beverage for summer." You heard that right. A donut drink. The United States is still food innovator #1!

Peter Jennings on Obesity and What
Causes It

Peter Jennings on Obesity and What
Causes It 12/09/2003 02:43 AM

I'm watching Peter Jennings at ABC TV reporting on the problem of obesity in America. Interesting that our government is subsidizing a lot of the problem.

Whales, Technology, and Obesity

Whales, Technology, and Obesity 07/27/2004 12:49 AM

Flying up the St. Lawrence River from Quebec City to Labrador and Newfoundland I saw about 100 whales in the water.  This at the same time that the newspapers were covering a debate about whether to allow renewed commercial whaling.  It is so easy to find whales from a plane, especially when the water is flat like the upstream portion of the river where the whales swim to find the richest food.  You just look for streaks of bubbles like a dotted line and the whale will be at the front.  What chance do these animals have against modern technology?  None, obviously.  Yet must we ban whaling?  Perhaps a compromise would be to allow whaling but only with the technology described in the book Moby Dick.  The whales had more of a chance back then and not infrequently managed to kill their hunters.

But maybe as the world population becomes ever more obese people will feel a greater kinship to these multi-ton creatures.  Once we're all incredibly fat and easy to spot from an airplane we will have enough sympathy for whales to leave them alone.

[If you are looking for a summer trip and wish to see a lot of whales without getting seasick, you can see Belugas, Humpbacks, Blues(!), et al., at the confluence of the Saguenay and St. Lawrence rivers (tourism site).  Sadly there is no airport right near the town of Tadoussac (Charlevoix is closest) but it is only about a 2.5-hour drive from Quebec City, right along the lake shore with a beautiful cathedral and then a big casino on the way.]

Three-year-old dies from obesity

Three-year-old dies from obesity 05/27/2004 06:10 AM
Heart failure, caused by obesity, has killed a child aged just three, it has been revealed.

Historical origins of obesity

Historical origins of obesity 05/27/2004 02:52 AM
Long, interesting Harvard Magazine article about the historical shifts in diet and lifestyle that led to America's obesity epidemic.

"We are not adapted to handle fast-acting carbohydrates," Ludwig continues. "Glucose is the gold standard of energy metabolism. The brain is exquisitely dependent on having a continuous supply of glucose: too low a glucose level poses an immediate threat to survival. [But] too high a level causes damage to tissues, as with diabetes. The body is designed to keep blood glucose within a tight range, and it does this beautifully, even with extreme nutrient ratios: we can survive indefinitely on a diet of 60 percent carbohydrates and 20 percent fat, or 20 percent carbohydrates and 60 percent fat. But we never [before] had to assimilate a heavy dose of high-glycemic carbohydrates."

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