Word: healthful
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When the Greens refused to resume chemotherapy, despite warnings from Truman that Chad would die without it, a legal battle began. Chad was declared a ward of the state for medical purposes only. The parents retained custody, but chemotherapy was administered at state expense. Chad's health improved. When the Greens asked the state courts for permission to give their son Laetrile as well, it was denied. Last month the Greens fled to Tijuana with Chad, placing him in a clinic headed by Dr. Ernesto Contreras, who advocates Laetrile for its psychological benefits, rather than as a cure...
Chad last week was taking Laetrile, together with vitamins and health foods, as well as his chemotherapy pills. Massachusetts doctors warned, however, that Laetrile was incompatible with regular chemotherapy and had, in fact, caused signs of cyanide poisoning in Chad's body. After considering a possible kidnaping charge against the Greens, Massachusetts Attorney General Francis X. Bellotti instead sought a court order demanding that the Greens return Chad to Massachusetts for treatment. Judge Guy Volterra granted the order. Last week he held the parents in contempt of court for disobeying it, but gave them another week to comply before...
This legal pressure is not expected to have much impact on the Greens. They were getting financial support from the National Health Federation, a right-wing California organization that also opposes fluoridation of water, and from private citizens who contend that the state has no business telling parents how to care for their children. With these contributions, the Greens hope to get by while they are in Mexico. "There is such a loving atmosphere here at the clinic," says Gerald Green. "The doctor, after giving us the test results, tells us, 'We'll be praying with...
...recently formed Environmental Action Committee is another example of a group designed to deal with a previously unmet need. The third new committee, Community Health, is a revamping of the Community Medical Program, which placed volunteers as orderlies in hospitals. The new program, instead, will work primarily in community health clinics, preventitive medicine, and alternative health care options...
...risks (for women who have not had a hysterectomy and who take estrogen) are remarkably high. You don't see anything like it in the human population," Dr. Kenneth J. Rothman, associate professor of epidemiology at the School of Public Health, said yesterday...