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...understand more about the disease process, we can do more to retard or prevent it." Cholesterol's role in heart disease should become clearer in 1983 when the first results from a National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute-sponsored study begun in 1976 become available...
Perhaps most important has been the aggressive campaign waged by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute and the American Heart Association to detect and treat hypertension, a risk factor in heart attacks and strokes. "Decades ago, there were two schools of thought," says Dr. Robert Levy, director of the N.H.L.B.I. "One said that high blood pressure should be lowered, and the other said that it can be protective [that is, needed to supply more blood to organs like the brain]. Now we know that it's very important that we treat it." Nearly 35 million Americans...
...March 9 Stanford surgeons performed a heart-lung transplant, only the fourth such operation ever and the first since 1971. The patient was Mary Gohlke, 45, a newspaper executive from Mesa, Ariz. She had been suffering from pulmonary hypertension, a condition in which high blood pressure in the vessels of the lungs impairs breathing and eventually damages the heart. Dr. Bruce Reitz and his Stanford team severed the aorta and trachea and cut through the heart's right atrium to remove the heart and lungs. "The whole thing comes out as a package," explains Reitz. Then they replaced...
...before Brooke had a chance to give her peers a puffless primer, the proposed $68,000 federal campaign was extinguished. Said HHS Chief of Staff David Newhall III: "I did not have sufficient confidence that the majority of smokers would be discouraged." The announcement certainly irritated the American Lung Association, which charged that the ads had gone up in smoke because the Government had bowed to pressure from the tobacco industry. The association's directors, who met with the model last week, plan to puff Brooke's message in an independent campaign. That is fine with her. Brooke...
...union's 1976 convention in Las Vegas, Teamster Boss Frank E. Fitzsimmons underscored the brass-knuckles philosophy of union management that ruled supreme during his decade-long tenure as president of the U.S.'s largest trade union. Fitzsimmons' death last week in La Jolla, Calif, of lung cancer at age 73 makes room at the top of the 78-year-old International Brotherhood of Teamsters; the succession is not clear. But there seems little prospect that the union will change very much from what it was under the bluff and blustery Fitzsimmons...