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What started six months ago as a face off between a women's advocacy committee and one particular UHS gynecologist have evolved into a mess of medical, ethical and statistical issues, none of them really useful to the average Harvard woman who is due for a checkup and getting nervous at the thought...
...most likely person to dominate it and-though he denies it-perhaps even to emerge as President. Yet Marcos reinforced speculation about his health by checking into a hospital for two days for pneumonitis (incipient pneumonia) just after telling a press conference that he had come through a checkup "with flying colors...
...plane crash, Panama's President Aristides Royo, 41, resigned from office last Friday. In a letter dispatched to the president of the National Assembly and read to the public, Royo declared that he could no longer carry out his responsibilities "due to health problems that make a checkup necessary." Shortly after his Vice President, Ricardo de la Espriella, 47, was sworn in as his successor, Royo explained that a "throat infection" had seriously hampered his ability to govern...
...disease you can't start at the age of 45." Indeed, some researchers estimate as many as 5 million American children may have high cholesterol counts. Predicts Pediatric Cardiologist Dan McNamara of Baylor: "In the future there will be a time for a child's preventive cardiology checkup just as there now is a child's dental checkup...
...candidates' physicians contend, probably correctly, that they have released all "significant" material. Some observers-including Dr. Roglieri-say they would like to see Presidents and candidates for the presidency submit to checkups by an independent panel of physicians, and the full results made public. It would be hard to choose, or certify, such a panel. Nor can there even be any real guarantee of future good health. After all, which American has not heard of someone who, a few days after his or her annual checkup, suffered a heart attack...