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...just how healthy are they? That question was raised last week at a press conference called by Dr. John Roglieri of Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. An ambitious New York internist, who took advantage of the meeting to make available to reporters copies of his latest book on health risks, Roglieri complained that voters are forced to rely on assessments made by each candidate's physician, and that these are not standardized...
Such is the paradoxical state of Soviet medicine. Even so, the Soviets have made great strides in health care since 1917. Says Washington, D.C., Internist William Knaus, who lived in the U.S.S.R. for 18 months and is the author of a forthcoming book, Inside Russian Medicine: "They took a country that was 200 years behind the rest of the world and provided the basics at a fraction of what we charge. They eliminated epidemics. Life expectancy is up and infant mortality is down. That has to be judged a success...
...some physicians believe that even if symptoms do show up, the test is so artificially structured that the results are suspect. Declares Internist Leonard Madison of Southwestern Medical School in Dallas: "Hypoglycemia is a normal response to the glucose tolerance test. Man was not built to take an overload of glucose like that. Look at it this way: if you run up a flight of stairs and find yourself short of breath, it does not mean you have heart disease." Madison, like others, believes that the GTT should be junked in favor of taking glucose measurements after normal meals...
...were simply fooling around and having a great time. Chapnick said the simplicity and the wholesomeness of skating is appealing--it is truly American, good exercise and a lot more fun than jogging. Her customers range from children to professionals, she said. One of Chapnick's customers, a young internist from Philadelphia, asked her where he could disco rollerskate in Boston, she said. To her surprise, he proved his skill by skating gracefully, backwards, up the hill behind her store...
Originally devised 19 years ago for his patients, the diet is the brainchild of Dr. Herman Tarnower, 69, a Scarsdale, N.Y., cardiologist and internist. Mimeographed copies of his diet gradually made the rounds of local country clubs, were lent by enthusiasts to friends in other parts of the country and were eventually taped on refrigerators from New York to California. Not surprisingly, the good doctor was prevailed upon to write a book, padding his original diet with 244 pages of familiar advice and additional menus. The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet (Rawson, Wade; $7.95), whose cover boasts, LOSE...