Food pyramid may get facelift
Washington officials consider replacing or updating the Food Guide Pyramid amid public confusion and rising obesity. An advisory group will help shape a new graphic and slogan to encourage personalized, practical nutrition guidance for 2005.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Eric Hentges
Center For Nutrition Policy and Promotion
Department
Hentges
Associated Press
Ipsos
Jackie Haven
Health and Human Services Department
Secretaries of Agriculture
HHS
Carol Tucker
Foreman
Consumer Federation of America
Whooping cough risks teens and adults rise
Whooping cough or pertussis is resurging as baby vaccines fade in protection by adolescence. GlaxoSmithKline seeks FDA approval for a booster while Aventis Pasteur moves toward one. Experts urge vaccinating infants early and cautious contact for caregivers to protect newborns. The disease, once controlled since the 1940s, is reemerging globally due to waning immunity.
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Washington
GlaxoSmithKline
Food and Drug Administration
Aventis Pasteur
Trudy Murphy
Centers For Disease Control and Prevention
Atlanta
O Dea graduates from medical school at Kansas university
O Dea graduates from medical school at the University of Kansas Medical Center. She earned Alpha Omega Alpha honors for being in the top 15 percent and is pursuing internal medicine residency. She is the daughter of Charles and Margy Porter and granddaughter of Tom and Mickey Porter of Ottawa.
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O'Dea
Bicknet Phobaeg
Universi
Oo Ranias School of Medicine
Pathology Honor Society
Alpha Omega Alpha
University of Kansas Medical Center
Charles and
Margy Porter
Ottawa
Tom and
Mickey Porter
University of Oklahoma College Medicine
Medica School
Kansans Face Limited Access to Oral Health, Report Says
A Kansas Health Institute study tied to the United Methodist Health Ministry Fund and a Pittsburg Mission of Mercy clinic found 73 percent of 2,158 free service patients had not visited a dentist in over a year and 56 percent in more than two years.
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Kansas Health Institute
United Methodist Health Ministry Fund
Pittsburg
Ottawa
Mission of Mercy
William H. Burks
Garden City
Wyandotte County
Steven Thompson
Kim Moore
The
Health Fund
Garden City Free Clinic
Moore
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Topeka
Flint Hills
Kansas
Overbrook
Msmidamerica.org
Wien
Eisenhower
Clark
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Lawrence
Pat
Kayla
Jake
Kansas City Area
Arkansas
First Bank of Ottawa
Third
Hickory
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