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...surprise move last week, Sweden's Karolinska Institutet awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine-which usually goes to researchers in disease or laboratory science-to three behavioral scientists: Karl von Frisch, 86, Konrad Lorenz, 69, and Nikolaas Tinbergen, 66. They will share $120,000 in prize money and the satisfaction of seeing ethology, the scientific field which they virtually created, recognized by the highest of academic accolades...
Bejerot is a researcher in social medicine at Stockholm's Karolinska Institute and an expert on the drug epidemics that have occurred periodically in nations all over the world. In a New York Times interview last week, he insisted that contrary to popular belief, the role of pushers in epidemic addiction is secondary. It is primarily the users-especially new users-who spread drug abuse by persuading their friends to join them in their mindless pursuit of euphoric highs. Sometimes, Bejerot says, it is even possible to trace waves of addiction to particular carriers. In 1949, for example...
Their experience is too limited, the researchers concede, for them to recommend routine use of prostaglandins for abortion, and they urge a more extensive trial. (Dr. Marc Bygdeman is already using F2 at Stockholm's Karolinska Institute.) But, they suggest, the technique could eliminate most of the risks in surgical abortion, notably infection and damage to the uterus. Perhaps equally important, when the technique of PG abortion is simplified and improved, it is likely to be more acceptable than surgery-both emotionally and aesthetically-to many women...