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This provocative idea was conceived by British Surgeons Denis Burkitt* and Neil Painter and Biochemist Alexander Walker in an attempt to explain the differences reported in disease rates between Africans living under tribal conditions and the peoples of Western countries where, they say, there has been a rapid increase in certain illnesses in less than a century...
...sometimes overruled when they recommended against approval of new drugs they had tested. Another devastating blow to the FDA was the publication of the book Eating May Be Hazardous to Your Health (Simon & Schuster; $7.95). It is an exposé of the agency by one of its own employees, Biochemist Jacqueline Verrett, who got her doctorate at Fordham University...
Died. Alfred Ezra Mirsky, 73, distinguished biochemist at New York City's Rockefeller University who in the 1940s helped spark the infant field of molecular biology by devising a technique for isolating the genetic material chromatin in the cells of animals; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
Died. Dr. Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr., 58, American biochemist whose research into the chemical transmission of hormonal messages between individual cells won him the Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology in 1971; following a brief illness; in Miami...
...York Philharmonic and Seattle Symphony, was seen and heard two weeks ago on the Dick Cavett Show, and has just completed a recital tour of California, Washington and Utah. Home is a comfortable, bookish old Spanish house in Los Angeles. Father Leonard is a physicist, Mother Eva a biochemist; neither is a musician. Brother Alan, 9, much to Lilit's annoyance, is as dedicated to the drums as the piano ("He just bangs on anything...