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...artery disease. "If such work is not done," wrote Dr. Lewis Thomas, chancellor of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, "we will be stuck forever with this insupportably expensive, ethically puzzling halfway technology." But preventing heart disease, as Thomas readily admits, is a long way off. Says Dr. William Friedewald, associate director of the Na tional Heart, Lung and Blood Institute: "Of course, our goal is prevention, to have no Barney Clarks in the future, but right now that's pipe-dreaming...
...heart patients had cause for encouragement. The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute announced that it was calling an early halt to a large-scale study because the drug being tested was so successful in reducing deaths in heart attack victims. Says NHLBl's associate director, Dr. William Friedewald: "The regular use of propranolol has the potential for saving at least 6,500 lives in the United States alone each year...
Propranolol's side effects are comparatively mild. Researchers caution that they do not know how long its protective effects last and when it should be discontinued. Even so, says Friedewald, the new test results represent an "exciting breakthrough...
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