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Volume 19, Number 4 • October 2006		 Arrow Bullet Return to Table of Contents
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Facts and ideas from anywhere

William C. Roberts, MD, Editor in Chief

Topics covered this issue:

•  A nation of 300 million
•  Then and now
•  Fruits and veggies
•  Employers push healthy eating
•  The omnivore's dilemma
•  Laparoscopic Lap-Band device vs laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass for extreme obesity
•  Addiction transfer
•  The family meal
•  Overweight toddlers
•  Quadruplets after triplets
•  Cigarette taxes
•  Secondhand smoke
•  Smokeless tobacco
•  Sobriety checks
•  Cost of cancer drugs-are they worth it?
•  Aravind Eye Hospital in India
•  "The End of Medicine"
•  "Canadian" prescription drugs
•  Increasing "self-pay" for hospitalization
•  Patients who speak no English
•  Alternative medicine outpatient clinic
•  Transient peace in the Middle East
•  Shiite Muslims vs Sunni Muslims: sectarian split in the Middle East
•  Dressed for winter in summer in Iraq
•  Iraqi insurgents' sniper techniques
•  Older soldiers
•  Heat wave
•  Diabetes "polypill"
•  Gender differences
•  Number two in space
•  More adult focused
•  Most inventive towns in the USA
•  Implanon
•  Funeral planning
•  Five best science books
•  Inheritance
•  Bats