Month: May 2010

A doctor who walks by his patients’ side

Dr. Ronald Fong at UC Davis created a weight management clinic that asks patients to take the lead in fighting their own obesity. But Fong walks by their side — literally, in an initial meeting during which he takes them out of the office for a stroll and a conversation.

Hospitals pressured to back more breastfeeding

California advocates for women and children are making a major push for breastfeeding and laying the groundwork for proposals in the Legislature that could require hospitals that deliver babies to reduce the number of newborns fed with bottled formula.

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