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Google "Marshall E. Deutsch" to see some of what I've been up to. I've mainly been an inventor of medical diagnostic test devices. For instance, there are a few hundred patents by others covering the system used for , e.g., home pregnancy tests and they all refer back to a basic patent of mine (Louis W. Mead's name is also on the patent) which initially described the set-up.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, December 1, 2010 Overweight and Obesity are not Synonymous
Both obesity and overweight are often cited as threats to health, but a careful examination of the medical literature indicates that the Body-Mass Index indicating overweight is associated with lower mortality, while that associated with obesity is associated with higher mortality than are values in the range considered normal