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Died. Dr. George Constantin Cotzias, 58, neurologist who developed the widely used L-dopa drug treatment for Parkinson's disease; of lung cancer; in Manhattan. Greek-born Cotzias left his Nazi-occupied homeland in 1941 and came to the U.S. for medical training. In 1967 he found that the drug Levodihydroxyphenylalanine successfully countered the major chemical deficiency in the brains of Parkinson victims; the discovery led him to an understanding of the biochemical abnormalities underlying the disease. When he learned he had cancer in 1973, Cotzias expanded his research to that field as well...
...conference does get off the ground, much of the credit will belong to its prospective chairman, British Foreign Secretary David Owen, 38. Last week the neurologist-turned-diplomat returned to London from an eight-day fact-finding trip to Africa. He impressed both white and black leaders with his candor, youthful idealism and realistic understanding of the Rhodesian impasse. Rhodesian diplomats, who were angered by the cold aloofness of a team led in January by Britain's U.N. Ambassador, Ivor Richard, described Owen as "tough" and "refreshing." He is hopeful that the heads of the front-line states-Angola...
...odds-on favorite to succeed the late British Foreign Secretary Anthony Crosland was Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey, 59, who had long wanted the job. Last week Prime Minister James Callaghan instead chose a dark horse: Dr. David Owen, 38, an ambitious, handsome neurologist-turned-politician who has been Crosland's deputy for the past eleven months. Born in Devon to a physician father, Owen developed his socialist convictions while working in National Health Service hospitals, and first won a Parliament seat from Plymouth in 1966. Britain's youngest Foreign Secretary since Anthony Eden was named...
Scientists themselves, like many of those at Denver, have been increasingly questioning their own role. Protesting science's callous use of human guinea pigs for experimentation, Dr. Richard M. Restak, a Washington neurologist, decries the fact that the prestigious National Institutes of Health refused to establish a code governing such experiments until its sponsored researchers were found guilty of injecting live cancer cells into uninformed subjects. Writing on the Op-Ed page of the New York Times, Restak voiced "a creepy realization that when left to their own devices, biomedical scientists are capable of some rather nasty mischief indeed...
After Siegel had spent only a single night at the new sleep-wake clinic of New York's Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center, Neurologist Elliot Weitzman's suspicions about him were confirmed; as soon as Siegel fell asleep, the functioning of the muscles of his upper respiratory tract became so impaired that breathing would come to a total halt for as long as a minute (doctors are uncertain whether excessive muscle relaxation or contraction is responsible). Then Siegel would awake with a start, and in his groggy state would gasp for air with a loud snore. The loud...