Word: endocrinologist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DIED. Hans Selye, 75, Vienna-born endocrinologist and the world's foremost authority on stress; in Montreal. Experiments on rats led him to theories about stress, which he explored in 33 books (including Stress Without Distress, 1974). The body's physical response to stress-alarm, resistance and exhaustion-can cause disease and death, Selye demonstrated. He contended that modern humans are no more its victims than were cave dwellers and suggested that by learning to control stress "people could live past...
...Rico have reported more than 700 cases, mostly in children under two. Some slightly older patients display a fuller range of adult sexual traits, including menstruation at age seven. "When you see four cases a day of an uncommon condition, then you know something is very wrong," declares Pediatric Endocrinologist Carmen A. Sáenz de Rodriguez of San Juan. Adds Dr. Adolfo Pérez Comas of Mayagiüez: "We are seeing children with deep emotional problems. Their whole development, not only in the physical sense, has been accelerated...
...could marry another woman, New York Socialite Alexandra Isles, 36, without losing his share of his wife's $75 million fortune. In 1979 and again in 1980, Sunny lapsed into comas, the second irreversible, and she is now hospitalized in Manhattan. The most important witnesses were Endocrinologist George Cahill of Harvard Medical School, who testified that Sunny's comas had to have been caused by insulin injections, and Maria Schrallhammer, Sunny's personal maid of 23 years. She told the court that for nine hours Von Bülow had refused to summon medical help...
...formation of new bone.* Using a computerized axial tomography scanner, doctors at the University of California in San Francisco are able to take three-dimensional X rays of the bones, measure the loss of minerals and devise an estrogen dosage sufficient to maintain the resorption balance. Says Kaiser-Permanente Endocrinologist Dr. Bruce Ettinger, who does research at U.C.S.F.: "We've been trying to find the smallest dose of estrogen that will prevent osteoporosis. I think we have the answer...
Keeping the dosage to a minimum is crucial because estrogen has been found to increase the incidence of uterine cancer. Doctors acknowledge the risk, but many say it is worth taking. Explains Endocrinologist Dr. Michael Kleerekoper of Detroit's Henry Ford Hospital: "The cancer produced by estrogen is curable. Osteoporosis is not. It's a trade-off." Adds Dr. Gilbert S. Gordan, professor of medicine at U.C.S.F. "What we are talking about is saving women a lot of pain and deformity and fracture...