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...quiet battle is raging over the Bush Administration's plan to appoint a scantily credentialed doctor, whose writings include a book titled As Jesus Cared for Women: Restoring Women Then and Now, to head an influential Food and Drug Administration (FDA) panel on women's health policy. Sources tell Time that the agency's choice for the advisory panel is Dr. W. David Hager, an obstetrician-gynecologist who also wrote, with his wife Linda, Stress and the Woman's Body, which puts "an emphasis on the restorative power of Jesus Christ in one's life" and recommends specific Scripture readings...
...Doctors differ over how to address the issue of self-exams with patients. Rebecca Garcia, Ph.D., vice president of mission services at the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, believes self-exams still play an important role in maintaining breast health. "We realize there are limitations to individual screening options, including self-exam," she says. "That's why we advise women to use them - self-exam, doctor exams, mammograms - in concert." For Dr. Blake Cady, director of the Breast Health Center at Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island, however, the China study simply corroborates his long-held beliefs. "The idea...
...1980s that scientists confirmed that humans can develop listeriosis as well. (A 1981 outbreak in Canada was tied to coleslaw prepared with contaminated cabbage.) As a rule, listeria is nothing healthy adults need to be worried about. "By the time they think that maybe they should go to the doctor, they start feeling better," says Linda Harris, a professor of microbiology at the University of California at Davis...
DIED. ORVAN W. HESS, 96, pioneering obstetrician and gynecologist; in New Haven, Conn. In 1942 Orvan injected a human patient with penicillin in a last-ditch effort to save her and became the first doctor in clinical practice to use the antibiotic successfully. Fifteen years later, he developed the first fetal-heart monitor. Today versions are used in delivery rooms worldwide...
...forced to fight each other to the death on a deserted island, turned heads with its macabre mix of nihilism and whimsy; with cancer; in Tokyo. Fukasaku, who co-directed the 1970 Pearl Harbor classic Tora! Tora! Tora!, plans to begin filming Battle Royale 2 in defiance of his doctor's orders...