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Silva has lived in Nicaragua for three years now, and in the mean-time the conditions he was fighting have worsened. Drs. John Stanbury and Carola Eisenberg, his co-panelists, confirmed this deterioration. Eisenberg said that the seven members of the commission to study El Salvador originally intended to be objective nonpolitical judges, but they rapidly became politicized. They found the government had allowed the national hospitals to reach a "state of chaos" and that camps housing some of the 200,000 internally displaced Salvadorans suffered from high instances of malnutrition and disease. They found that food from...

Author: By Michael Hasselmo, | Title: Fighting for a Cure | 3/19/1983 | See Source »

...positive of the mechanism involved," say Drs. Arthur Neinhuis and Timothy Ley of the National Institutes of Health's Clinical Hematology Branch. The scientists speculate that, basically, the drug works by stripping genes of chemicals that have repressed their activity, allowing them to switch on again. The genes affected are those that produce hemoglobin for the developing fetus. These fetal genes turn off around birth as other genes take over to produce hemoglobin for human life outside the womb. Scientists still do not know why there are two sets of genes for making hemoglobin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Genetic Fix | 12/20/1982 | See Source »

...instance, let's say that scientists have discovered a startling new source of low-calorie roughage. In a report to the Great Neck Ear, Eye and Throat Consortium, Drs. Hugo and Margot Frodo explained "Ground glass provides the gritty texture crucial to a person's roughage intake. Consumed in bulk, we predict that glass will improve regularity without fear of cholesterol accumulation...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Stan the Man | 9/24/1982 | See Source »

...Hussain, then a resident at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women's Hospital, was convicted last year with Drs. Alan Lefkowitz and Eugene Sherry of cooperating in the repeated rape of a woman they met a mutual friend's party. Superior Court Judge Walter Steele had the option of handing down prison sentences in excess of 20 years because each man was held responsible for all three attacks. The average penalty for the crime in Massachusetts is an 11-year term. The defendants received suspended sentences under which they would have to spend six months in jail. "Another case where...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Behind the Hype | 5/19/1982 | See Source »

Earlier this month the MMS officially censured and placed on probation Drs. Benjamin Covino, head of the anaesthesiology department at BWH. Aaron J. Gissen, professor of anaesthesiology, and John A. Wark, a former anaesthesiology staff member at BWH, for writing the recommendations. The censure is the harshest disciplinary action short of expulsion the society can hand down. Although the MMS is not directly involved with issuing licenses, it will inform the state board of their action. However, Dr. William B. Munier, the society's executive vice president, said recently he did not think the letters were a serious enough action...

Author: By John F. Baughman, | Title: The Medical Profession on Trial | 2/11/1982 | See Source »

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