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If you're losing hope

of losing weight .. .

"How much do I weigh? I really don't know. I've stopped
weighing myself."

Israel, Egypt Join
Hands In Medicine

"Food? Honestly, that's all I ever think about!"
"My weight? I can talk about anything — but not that."

Over four million Americans suffer from severe obesity.
Their lives, and the lives of their families, are painfully
affected by it. Because while the cause is unknown, we do
know that severe obesity causes emotional, financial and
health problems.
At Thorn Hospital, we offer help for men and women who
are 160% of their ideal weight, or who are more than 100
pounds over their ideal weight. It's a comprehensive weight
reduction program that combines highly refined surgical
treatments with sensitive, caring nursing and supportive,
informative counseling.

In addition, as a specialist in obesity-related surgery
Thorn Hospital is well prepared to handle
conventional surgical procedures where
obesity may create complications, or where
surgery is indicated because of obesity-
related factors.
For more information, an evaluation, or the
opportunity to observe a group discussion,
please call toll-free or write: Thom Hospital,
800-722-7413
458 Cross Street, Hudson, Michigan 49247.

Thorn Hospital is a non-profit community hospital dedicated to an obesity surgical program.

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Next time you feed your face, think about your heat

Go easy on your heart and start cutting back on foods that are high in saturated
fat and cholesterol. The change'II do you good.

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American Head Association

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he Children's Medical Cen-
ter of Israel (CMCI), the
only critical-care hospital
for children in the Middle
East, will be among the first Is-
raeli institutions to take part in
joint medical projects with Egypt.
A senior Egyptian delegation
headed by Mahmoud Abd. El Hal-
im Elshahawi, deputy director of
the Egyptian Foreign Ministry,
came to Israel earlier this year to
sign a number of cooperative
agreements in the fields of sci-
ence, education, and medicine.
The accords marked the first
such agreements between the
two nations since 1980, accord-
ing to Uri Bar-Ner, deputy di-
rector general for Science,
Culture and Academia of the Is-
raeli Foreign Ministry. He an-
nounced that CMCI would be
part of this cooperative agree-
ment. Physician exchanges be-
tween Egypt and Israel are
expected to begin within two
months under the agreement.
While on their mission to Is-
rael, the Egyptian officials visit-
ed the Department of
Hematology-Oncology at CMCI,

where they saw two 8-year-old
boys from the Gaza strip who are
receiving special training in pe-
diatric hematology-oncology.
Dr. Eliahu Wielunsky, deputy
director of CMCI, said that the
hospital, which opened last year
in Petah Tikvah, "is the realiza-
tion of a dream of creating a
bridge of peace between Israel
and its neighbors."
Another highlight of the visit
by the Egyptian delegation was
an emotional meeting with Dr.
Yehezkel Waisman, director of
CMCFs emergency unit, who was
held captive in Egypt for two
months after the Yom Kippur
War. When asked by one of the
delegates, Muhammed Kamel
Khalil, nephew of former Egypt-
ian Prime Minister Mustapha
Khalil, if he enjoyed his period of
captivity, Dr. Waisman replied:
"It would be hard to describe it
as enjoyable. As a P.O.W. I met
an Egyptian doctor, a wonderful
man of morals who supported me,
understood me and helped me get
through the hardest days. I was
treated humanely, and that's
what is important." ❑

Scientists Learn
About Perception

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Mahmoud Abd El Halim Elshahawi of Egypt visits with a cancer patient from Gaza.

WE'RE FIGHTING FOR YOUR LIFE

esearchers at the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem
have identified for the first
time an area of the brain
that controls cognitive learning
through vision and the memory
of complex shapes.
The researchers hope that this
knowledge will contribute in the
future to help rehabilitate pa-

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tients who have suffered brain
damage that has affected their
ability to discern faces and forms.
The research was conducted
by Dr. Volodia Yakovlev and Pro-
fessor Shaul Hochstein of the de-
partment of neurobiology at the
Alexander Silberman Institute of
Life Sciences at the Hebrew Uni-
versity. Dr. Yakovlev immigrat-

