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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Blue Cross urges curb on hospital lab tests...
Federal officials hint that Bario may have saved an antidepressant drug prescribed by a psychiatrist and either overdosed or committed suicide. That drug did not show up in lab tests either, however. Who had a motive to poison him? Mafia members may have wanted revenge for his undercover work. Or it may have been some of the traffickers against whom Bario was moving, allegedly including high Latin American officials. Some DEA officials might also have had reason to want Bario dead, if his trial were to expose illegal acts by certain agents. Says his lawyer: "He had an abiding fear...
...Henson? Run a lab analysis of genius and you get a few dollars' worth of chemicals. Like his wife, he practices Transcendental Meditation, reads a lot, frequently about psychic phenomena, and lives fairly simply. He likes to play tennis and ski with the children. In London he enjoys an occasional evening of blackjack at a casino, and driving fast in a Kermit-green Lotus through the English countryside. Although Jim is away from the family home in Bedford, N.Y.. for almost six months of each year, the Henson marriage seems to be anything but the disposable show business...
...scientific meeting in Los Angeles last month, Yalow described some recent work with lab animals. Using the radioimmunoassay techniques for which she won her prize, she and a co-worker at The Bronx, N.Y., Veterans Administration Hospital found a possible link between obesity and the shortage of a brain chemical. Grossly fat mice seem to have smaller amounts of the hormone cholecystokinin than their skinner littermates. In other words, the hormone may be suppressing rodent appetites. Tentative though those findings were, Yalow discussed them with the press. She had been uncomfortable ever since...
...published accounts stressed that the work involved only lab animals and that if there were any implications at all for humans, it was not for ordinary fatties but for the grossly obese. Still, Yalow was inundated with a hundred letters asking for help that she clearly could not give. So Yalow has decided, for now, that mum's the word about obesity hormones. Says she: "The story's gone too far already and given a lot of desperate people a very false sense of hope...