"There is potentially unlimited demand, " says Deborah Rhodes, who heads the Mayo Clinic program.

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Hernried has lectured on very low-calorie diets for more than a decade and supervises a VLCD program in his California clinic.

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She built a state-of-the-art neo-natal unit, brought in experts to train the clinic's staff and established a program to cover the medical costs for babies born to impoverished mothers.

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Brock said there are plans to expand U.S. operations for his group, and he also wants to add a permanent clinic in Guyana and start up a program in Africa.

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The gradual-exposure principles are part of the program that helped Georgiann Steely at Mayo's teen clinic.

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Before they recruited their first member, Jennifer Dankle, a University of Minnesota cardiologist who practices at Fairview Southdale Hospital, connected Ms. FitzPatrick and Ms. Gullickson with a training program sponsored by the nonprofit WomenHeart coalition at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.

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Consider a balance clinic or other fall prevention, movement or exercise program for your aging parent.

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