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AT the neo-Classical building in Golden Gate Park that the California Academy of Sciences occupied from 1916 to 2003, penguins tended to huddle on dry land. Children who wanted to see them swim at the front of the tank were often disappointed.
But when the museums new building, designed by Renzo Piano, opens […]

MANOREXIA. Orthorexia. Diabulimia. Binge Eating Disorder.
All are dangerous variations on the «topics.nytimes.com» «health.nytimes.com» and «health.nytimes.com», and have become buzzwords that are popping up on Web sites and blogs, on television and in newspaper articles. As celebrity magazines chronicle the glamorous and the suffering, therapists and a growing number of researchers are trying to treat […]

Watch out for this common trap: You persuade yourself that because youre following a low-carb eating plan, Thanksgiving will be easy as pie (er, make that steak!). Heck, you tell yourself, its all about the turkey, right? Wrong! Theres the stuffing… and the cranberry sauce… and the ooey-gooey marshmallows on the candied sweet potatoes… and […]

BAPEN is undertaking the first prospective national nutrition screening survey across both hospital and community care settings 25 - 27th September 2007 in order to find out the prevalence of malnutrition on admission to hospital and care. This survey is being organised in collaboration with the British Dietetic Association (BDA) and the Royal College of […]

NEW DELHI (AP) India has roughly 2.5 million people infected with HIV, less than half the number of cases that previous studies estimated, the health minister and international AIDS experts said Friday.
The drastically reduced numbers come from expanded surveys and an improved methodology, providing a far more accurate portrait of India’s HIV epidemic, […]