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...food manufacturers who oppose the Heart Association's dietary recommendations have come in for widespread criticism. "Instead of making excuses, they ought to be adopting the long-range goal of making better products," says Dr. John LaRosa, an internist at George Washington University Medical School. Many doctors believe that the labels on processed food should spell out the amounts of cholesterol, saturated fat and polyunsaturated fat the food contains. "How else is the shopper to know that something as innocent as a soda cracker contains 4 gm of saturated fat?" asks Cincinnati's Dr. Glueck. Saturated fat, usually...
...experimental combination of cholesterol-lowering drugs, when her condition suddenly deteriorated. On Oct. 12, she suffered a heart attack. Six days later she again was gripped by severe chest pains, "It was a horrible thing to see a small child in such agony," says Bilheimer. At that point, explains Internist Scott Grundy, lowering Stormie's cholesterol level ceased to be the primary concern: "The issue was whether she was going to live, or die from heart disease...
American researchers who have been involved in a Soviet-U.S. medical exchange program that has been going on since 1972 generally give the Moscow institute and its researchers high marks. Others have some reservations. George Washington University Internist William Knaus, author of Inside Russian Medicine, says of the center, "Individual projects might be comparable, but overall it would not compare with Stanford, the University of Texas, Harvard or the Mayo Clinic...
...lawyers, but cited only one physician by name. A 60 Minutes investigator obtained a phony medical report at a clinic; Rather held up the report and said, on air, "It was signed by Carl A. Galloway, M.D." Among the estimated 40 million people watching was Galloway, a Los Angeles internist and a distant relative of the clinic's owner. Galloway informed CBS that he had left the clinic a month before the report was issued, and that his signature was forged - points that CBS does not contest - but he could not get a retraction. The network insists that Galloway...
Stakes leaves minutes later satisfied that she has it under control. Often say McMahon the doctor will stay especially if there is a patient who might encounter some sort of difficulty during the night and grab sleep when he can Stakes serves as a neurologist as well as an internist in day light and on nights when the lab is in service he says "I fit sleep in someplace...