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...have a number of patents which have been licensed to companies, but I have never profited from any one of those," says Michael Klagsbrun, a professor of surgery who sits on the scientific advisory board of Creative Biomolecules...
...made herself death's interlocutor, bargaining away the pain and isolation in return for peace and acceptance. She has done this as much through the strength of a very forthright -- some say autocratic -- character as through good medicine. "Her spirit is not to be complacent," says Dr. Samuel Klagsbrun, professor of psychiatry at Columbia University who has known Dame Cicely for more than two decades. "Even at this age she stirs the pot and challenges people...
While he could not detect the growth factor in any one of several infant formulas tested, Klagsbrun said it may have been present in low levels because "in the laboratory we used small samples...
Most doctors are horrified at the prospect of their patients demanding Laetrile. New York Psychiatrist Samuel Klagsbrun told an FDA hearing: "The sad part about it is that for an individual to leave orthodox treatment is to choose to leave their only real chance for survival. It is suicide we're talking about." The FDA has cases of women with cervical cancer who refused surgery, which has a 65% cure rate, in favor of taking Laetrile, and died. Similar cases are cited by Harvard Neurosurgeon H. Thomas Ballantine, a past president of the Massachusetts Medical Society. He calls Laetrile...
...Klagsbrun concedes that his upbeat approach, which has been adopted as a regular part of the hospital's procedures, does not satisfactorily deal with the agonizing time immediately before death. "This period," he says, "is still an unknown entity from the psychological point of view." Even so, he may have made some unexpected progress. With life rapidly slipping from her, an old Italian woman called to a nurse one day. "It is the end, isn't it?" she asked. The nurse nodded, sat next to the old woman and held her hand. "I don't want...