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When a patient has high blood pressure, the first drug most doctors prescribe is a diuretic. By accelerating the loss of water and sodium from the body, these medications help lower blood pressure and thus decrease the risk of stroke, congestive heart failure and kidney failure. But a Swedish study released last week provides new evidence that so-called water pills may increase the danger of diabetes and heart attacks...
...crusaders against cholesterol have exaggerated the benefits of low-fat diets. Moore, who spent four years reviewing the scientific literature on the subject, acknowledges that researchers have established a link between high cholesterol and increased risk of heart disease. He argues, however, that diet modification cannot do much to lower cholesterol, that reducing blood levels of the suspect substance has not been proved to prolong life and that cholesterol-lowering drugs may carry more risks than benefits. Moore's readers are likely to come away totally bewildered about what to believe and whose advice to follow...
Moore's contention that diet has little impact on cholesterol levels is an oversimplification. Some patients respond dramatically to diet therapy, others hardly at all. The author cites studies showing that people who change their eating habits generally lower their cholesterol levels by 5% to 10%. But Dr. James Cleeman, coordinator of the NCEP, maintains that the typical reduction range is more like...
...court's conservative cast is already affecting the kinds of disputes that are brought before it. Observes University of Michigan law professor Yale Kamisar: "The Warren Court took cases where Government won ((in lower courts)). This court seems to be taking cases where Government lost below. It is putting liberal judges back in line." Civil rights and civil liberties groups have taken note. Ronald Ellis of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund admits that, in order not "to tempt the fates," his organization has refrained from appealing cases to the high court and is considering filing more suits...
...report said the lower-level officers who rebelled were disgruntled over not being promoted. In their only communique, the rebels said they were discarding the entire high command. That communique was signed by a major and two captains...