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Dates: during 1970-1979
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President Carter's decision this week to loosen regulatory restraints covering research on the use of marijuana to control nausea in cancer patients is in part the result of a decade of pioneering research at the Medical School. Dr. Norman A. Zinberg, clinical professor of Psychiatry, said yesterday...

Author: By Alan Cooperman, | Title: Doctors Seek Medicinal Use For Marijuana | 11/11/1977 | See Source »

...regulations also require financial aid officers to discuss the loan payment schedule with each loan recipient. the Sidney Farber Cancer Institute, said yesterday he has been studying the use of marijuana to control the side effects of chemotherapy since 1971, when a patient told him that smoking the drug before chemotherapy treatments eliminated the usual nausea...

Author: By Alan Cooperman, | Title: Doctors Seek Medicinal Use For Marijuana | 11/11/1977 | See Source »

...damask-hung walls of the Senate chamber reverberated with the longest, most heartfelt outpouring of affection and admiration that anyone could remember. Hubert Humphrey had returned to the place he loves "with blind devotion." Eleven weeks after doctors discovered that his pelvic cancer had spread and was beyond surgery, the "Happy Warrior" of the Democratic Party was back at the desk he has occupied for 21 years. TIME Correspondent Bonnie Angela reports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Indomitable Senator Returns | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

DIED. Lester Markel, 83, longtime Sunday editor of the New York Times (1923-64) who expanded and diversified coverage; of cancer; in Manhattan. Under Markel's direction, the Sunday department added separate magazine, book review, drama and travel sections. Markel was proudest of having created "The Week in Review" section, which, he said, "put the week's events in perspective." Markel expanded that concept as editor and moderator of the public television show News in Perspective...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 7, 1977 | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

...this latest film by Spanish director Carlos Saurus in the Boston Phoenix that makes it sound like far and away the most interesting new movie in town. Saurus portrays the hypocrisy of a philandering, insensitive military man and the despair of his young wife who is dying of cancer through the eyes of their aloof, perceptive and frighteningly critical young daughter, Ana. At the same time, he includes scenes that give a more objective, more compassionate view of the unhappy parents. The theme of the child's view of adulthood is one that has made for some remarkable films...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: There's A Hitch At Quincy | 11/3/1977 | See Source »

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