Word: clinics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...notes recur. Two years ago, the Chicago chapter of the Planned Parenthood Federation sent a mailing to college newspapers that included a cartoon showing a Catholic bishop clutching a gasoline can to his breast as if it were a Bible; he was on his way to torch an abortion clinic. In 1972 the Xerox Corp. published a booklet directed at elementary and high school students called Population Control: Whose Right to Live? The authors, two independent university professors, implied that Pope Paul VI's teachings on birth control sanctioned the starvation of countless numbers ol people around the world...
Research done at Minnesota's Mayo Clinic suggests that high dosages of vitamin C do not, as previously suspected, aid advanced cancer patients, the New England Journal of Medicine reported this week...
Robert Mayer, assistant professor at the Medical School, praised the Mayo clinic study, saying that discrepancies in the Scottish study made its results invalid and potentially dangerous...
Most specialists still feel that the real answer to shedding pounds is changing lifestyles. Says Dr. Victor Vertes, director of the weight loss clinic at Cleveland's Mt. Sinai Hospital: "These drugs are not going to burn calories. You've got to curb your caloric intake. And for long-term weight control, they're completely useless. You can't take them for the rest of your life...
...disease and geriatrics. Called nurse practitioners, they number about 15,000. Some work closely with doctors in special units of hospitals or in offices. Others, particularly in rural areas, where physicians are scarce, practice virtually on their own: for example, Eleanora Fry of Horseshoe Bend, Idaho, who operates a clinic in a town of 500. Often they perform services once exclusively the preserve of physicians: physical checkups, reading X rays, ordering lab tests and prescribing medications for complaints, such as vaginitis and hypertension...