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...drug, ipecac, is being used in greater quantities among women and men of all ages with eating disorders, even though the drug may cause serious medical problems, Drs. E. Prather Palmer and Andre T. Guay reported in this week's New England Journal of Medicine...
...most intriguing of the Harvard studies presented at the conference derives from research, on the eating habits of Eskimos. Studies had suggested that Greenland Eskimos have a low incidence of heart disease because they consume large quantities of seafood rich in certain oils. Based on this information, Drs. Sanford Warren and Richard Pasternak of the Beth Israel Hospital Coronary Care Unit postulated that cod liver oil could reduce the risk of heart disease...
Some physicians are convinced that there are distinct characteristics that make some people more susceptible to chronic pain. Drs. David Richlin and Leonard Brand of Presbyterian Hospital in New York City list the following traits: low motivation, poor self-image, lack of pride in accomplishments, dependency on others...
What we are remembering this weekend is a controversy in the history of Harvard which filled the pages of The Crimson and preoccupied the national news media for months 20 years ago Drs. Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert, both psychologist and members of the Harvard. Faculty, had discovered psilocybin, a consciousness altering substance in the "magic mushroom," and were busy persuading graduates and un dergraduates to take it--in some in stances as part of a course for credit They arranged sessions--called "drug trips" by their opposition--for groups as diverse as prisoners in the Concord Reformatory and worshippers...
CONSISTENTLY, Anderson's most oblique attacks are the most potent. The creepy Dr. Millar (Graham Crowden), is a brilliant 1980s cross between Drs. Frankenstein and Strangelove. He sings the praises of modern science while placing a human brain in a blender and then proceeding to drink the elixir. He creates a patchwork-quilt human being out of the spare parts of patients, and when the head he has selected proves non-functional, he thinks nothing of lopping one off of an errant news reporter (Malcolm McDowell). Yet Anderson has by now amply made his point about the ominous potential...