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Sidney Wolfe of the HRG said this summer, "The major disease in the U.S. this year related to Fort Dix will not be swine flu but, rather, swine flu vaccine disease." The Lancet, a respected British medical journal, concluded that the swine flu virus "seemed to be not very good at infecting man and may have died out as a result" and implied that the U.S. response to a minimal danger," and suggested that the government stockpile the vaccine and administer it only if swine flu reappeared...
...revival of interest in the existence of what doctors call fetal alcohol syndrome was spurred in 1973, when Drs. Kenneth Jones and David Smith at the University of Washington School of Medicine reported in the Lancet on eight children with similar birth and growth defects. Their investigation revealed that all were born to mothers who were chronic alcoholics...
...untreated, 20% of its victims will die. Not surprisingly, it most often strikes people who keep or handle parrots or other pet birds. But psittacosis may not be the only ailment that bird owners can acquire from their feathered friends. A pair of English researchers report in The Lancet that the same organism that causes parrot fever may also bring on a form of heart dis ease. Doctors have long been looking for causes other than rheumatic fever for disease of the heart valves; it is only relatively recently, however, that some have noted a link between birds and heart...
...human mind would take many years to process. This has happened in the Boston metropolitan area, where a Boston University team led by Dr. Hershel Jick analyzed the records of 25,000 patients admitted to 24 hospitals in 1972. The surprise finding, reported in the British medical journal the Lancet, is that women aged 50 or over who take certain types of medication to relieve mild cases of high blood pressure run a threefold increased risk of developing breast cancer...
Theories as to how reserpine-type alkaloids might influence breast cancer are inconclusive. A leading U.S. cancer epidemiologist, Manhattan's Dr. Ernest L. Wynder, believes that the action is not to cause the cancer-that usually takes many years-but to stimulate or accelerate its development. A somber Lancet editorial suggests that doctors will now have to weigh the apparently greater risk of breast cancer against the advantages of lowering blood pressure for mature women...