Word: endocrinologist
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...committed to caring for Noelle (not her real name) that they had placed her on a stringent low-fat diet in an effort to ensure that she did not become obese. Told that the strict regimen was stunting the toddler's growth, they were surprised. Says Pugliese, a pediatric endocrinologist at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, N.Y.: "They really felt they were doing what was right for the child's long-term benefit...
...building was dedicated last night in Boston at a formal dinner hosted by the Hughes Institute. Thorn, an endocrinologist, is also a retired chief of medicine at Brigham and Women's and the chairman of the Hughes Institute board of trustees...
...found no significant change in the number of sports participants over the past two years. Swimming, including mere splashing around the local pool, remained the most popular activity (41% of Americans did it at least once last year). Fishing (34%) nosed out bicycling (33%) for second. New York City Endocrinologist Xavier Pi- Sunyer says that data thus far in the '80s indicate that a little less than one-third of men and more than one-third of women are obese, just as they were a decade ago. "The evidence," says Editor T George Harris of American Health magazine, still "shows...
...medical records. One testified that Mrs. Von Bulow had taken 15 aspirin tablets, six to seven amobarbital capsules and a few stiff drinks before losing consciousness in 1980. Another asserted that Mrs. Von Bulow's comas were each caused by cardiopulmonary arrest. On Friday Dr. Arthur Rubenstein, an endocrinologist, testified that the positive insulin test results at the center of the state's case were invalid. "I personally would have no confidence in any of those values," he said. Claimed Puccio: "By the end of this, the whole issue of insulin will be out of the trial...
Each year an estimated 200,000 American women, roughly 15% to 20% of those having difficulty becoming pregnant, take fertility drugs, and some experts suggest that they are now being overused. "There are no magic fertility pills," says Reproductive Endocrinologist Martin Quigley of the Cleveland Clinic. "Some physicians may be using them indiscriminately in response to patient demands...