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Heroic Nurse – the Last Surviving 'Angel of Bataan and Corregidor' – Passes Away
Mildred Dalton Manning, the last surviving member of a group of U.S. Army and Navy nurses taken prisoner in the Philippines at the start of ...
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BMI Screening and Surveillance
An International Perspective
International efforts to screen children have previously focused on the problem of malnutrition in the preschool years. The new World Health Organization–derived but U.S.-based data for "optimum" growth in school-aged children may not be accepted in more than a few countries. Currently, an international perspective suggests that those school-aged children's body mass indexes (BMIs) that, on a percentile-ranking basis, track to adult BMIs of 
25 kg/m2 are likely to be associated with an appreciable increased risk of the comorbidities associated with weight gain. There is limited evidence on the value of individually directed help for children with higher BMIs as a national policy, but national surveillance systems are badly needed to allow a better focus on the development of both public health and individual treatment policies.