Word: dermatologist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...group, led by Dermatologist Leon Goldman, stressed in a recent issue of the A.M.A. Journal that laserasing surgery is still too untried to be used routinely in the treatment of tattoos. But preliminary results are so promising that the technique may be used to treat soldiers who are literally tattooed when explosions implant tiny fragments and dirt beneath their skins...
Though Levy, 30, tried vainly in the 13-day trial to excuse his rebellious conduct as a matter of principle, the pallid, intense Brooklyn dermatologist appeared to be more often stricken by confusion than conscience. Though claiming that he refused to teach Special Forces aidmen simple skin-disease remedies because he believed they would commit war crimes in Viet Nam, he was unable to support the charge. In a switch of tactics, his attorneys last week argued that to teach the Green Berets medical skills would have violated Levy's professional ethics, since the troopers were combatants first...
...evangelist against this foolish suntanning habit," says U.C.L.A. Dermatologist Dr. J. Walter Wilson. "But trying to persuade people to stop lying in the sun for hours is as difficult as getting them to give up smoking." Simply put, suntans may look good but they are very bad medicine. The sun's rays eventually cause the skin to wrinkle and sag, aging effects seen most clearly on the back of a cowboy's neck. The rays also produce lentigines, the brown marks often called liver spots. By far the worst result, however, is skin cancer...
Familiar But Unfamiliar. The two types of cancer involved are called basal-cell and squamous-cell carcinomas, from the types of skin cells among which they are found. For patients who had widespread forms of either of these cancers, Dermatologist Edmund Klein of the Roswell Park Memorial Institute in Buffalo tried using familiar anticancer chemicals-but he used them in an unfamiliar manner...
...time in its history, the Food and Drug Administration last week struck a physician's name from its approved list of researchers who are entitled to test new, investigational drugs on human subjects. The target of the FDA's action was Dr. Albert M. Kligman, a Philadelphia dermatologist, along with "all investigators associated with" three incorporated laboratories of which he is president and director...