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Monday, December 24, 2012

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<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>CRMC announces 2012 Wellness winners - Cookeville Herald Citizen

Posted: 24 Dec 2012 02:18 PM PST


CRMC announces 2012 Wellness winners
Cookeville Herald Citizen
Each employee participating in the Wellness Program will obtain blood work, weight measurement, blood pressure, and BMI calculations to help determine what areas may need improvement. After obtaining results, Wellness Committee members are ...

<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>Study: Most Area Third-graders at a Healthy Weight - Twin Falls Times-News

Posted: 24 Dec 2012 02:15 PM PST


Study: Most Area Third-graders at a Healthy Weight
Twin Falls Times-News
Last school year, health officials weighed and measured 365 third-graders at six randomly selected schools to calculate their Body Mass Index. Susie Beem, health education specialist for the SCPHD, said they'll follow up with school principals to share ...

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<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>Obesity Care May Not Be Best Delivered by PCPs - Medscape

Posted: 24 Dec 2012 01:59 PM PST


Medscape

Obesity Care May Not Be Best Delivered by PCPs
Medscape
Implementing practice-based changes, such as having scales report body mass index (BMI), which could become a listed vital sign in a patient's record, also may help improve care, the survey indicates. Sara N. Bleich, PhD, assistant professor of health ...

<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>Appendicitis: CT Scan vs Ultrasound Depends on Hospital Type - Medscape

Posted: 24 Dec 2012 12:48 PM PST


Appendicitis: CT Scan vs Ultrasound Depends on Hospital Type
Medscape
After adjusting for age, sex, race/ethnicity, body mass index, symptom duration, and white blood cell count, researchers found that children initially evaluated at a community hospital were 4.4 times more likely to have undergone a preoperative CT scan ...

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<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>BMI Can Predict Health Risks - New York Times (blog)

Posted: 24 Dec 2012 11:32 AM PST


BMI Can Predict Health Risks
New York Times (blog)
Some scientists believe that body mass index, a calculation involving the ratio of height to weight, is an inaccurate measure of obesity-related risks because it does not account for body shape, fat mass and lean mass. But a new study finds that B.M.I ...

<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Yahoo.jpg"/>Study: Most Area Third-graders at a Healthy Weight

Posted: 24 Dec 2012 01:10 AM PST

TWIN FALLS • Most of south-central Idaho's third-graders are at a healthy weight.

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