Multitasking Against Obesity

Published June 15, 2013

Multitasking against obesity

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“The world is getting heavier,” said moderator-panelist Lee M. Kaplan, an associate professor at HMS and director of the MGH Weight Center, “and this is not a personal problem of slovenliness or laziness by the patient.” Nadia Ahmad, former HMS …
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Readers respond: What do you think of medical research without consent?

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I wrote in Saturday's Globe about researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital and Boston Medical Center who are hoping to get clearance from research review panels to enroll patients in a study without consent. The team wants to join a national …
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Shermain Miles, Chicago Woman Arrested 396 Times, Ordered To Get Help …

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CHICAGO — A homeless Chicago woman who has been arrested 396 times in the past 35 years has been ordered by a judge to get mental health and substance abuse treatment. Shermain Miles, 51, appeared in a Cook County …. Ilyass Nabih and Thony …
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