Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reporting in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers found that when hypertensive patients were given the popular diuretic hydrochlorothiazide, their ability to metabolize the sugar glucose dropped 11% and their blood levels of cholesterol and fats rose 5% and 15%, respectively. The researchers stress, however, that there is no proof to date that diuretics have raised the actual incidence of diabetes or heart attacks...
...right? Up to a point, yes. Many of his criticisms of the anticholesterol campaign have been voiced by respected researchers in the New England Journal of Medicine and the Journal of the American Medical Association. Certainly, many people have an overly simplistic view of the relationship between diet and heart disease. Observes Dr. Allan Brett, an assistant professor at the Harvard Medical School: "Some patients have been led to believe that lowering cholesterol is like magic: eat a bowl of oat bran, and you're cured. For most, that's not true...
Between 11:50 p.m. Sunday and 5:30 a.m. Monday, an "unknown person" broke into Nini's newsstand, at Mass. Ave. and Brattle St., then moved next door to the Greenhouse Coffee Shop, according to the Cambridge police journal...
...lobbying pamphlet distributed by the Coalition for Lesbian and Gay Civil Rights quotes a March, 1987 Wall Street Journal survey which said 66 percent of U.S. chief executives would hesitate to promote a gay person to management-committee level...
...Institute of Economic Botany at the New York Botanical Garden recently published the results of a three-year study that calculated the market value of rubber and exotic produce like the Aguaje palm fruit that can be harvested from the Amazonian jungle. The study, which appeared in the British journal Nature, asserts that over time selling these products could yield more than twice the income of either cattle ranching or lumbering...