Word: panels
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...send a clear signal, a panel of experts assembled by the NHLBI last week called for all Americans over age 20 to have their cholesterol levels checked. The group also set forth the first well-defined national cholesterol-level standards for adults and spelled out precisely what physicians should do once ^ a patient's cholesterol level is determined. "Medical practice is going to undergo a major change on the basis of this report," said Panel Chairman DeWitt S. Goodman of Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City...
...primary prescription for lowering cholesterol levels still reads like a California cafe menu: low-fat milk and dairy products, lean meat, few eggs and absolutely no animal fat or poultry skin. If cholesterol cannot be reduced with diet alone, the panel directed, physicians should prescribe such drugs as cholestyramine and colestipol, which act in the intestines and cause the body to utilize excess cholesterol. The much touted newer drug lovastatin, which works in the liver, where most of the body's cholesterol is manufactured, is mentioned as a second choice, since its long-term effects remain unknown. Based...
...House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee voted 32-7 to approve the measure, which is designed to meet a $94 million savings requirement imposed on the panel by the House Budget Committee...
Incumbent School Committee members said panel members have succeeded in forging compromises between Cambridge Civic Association [CCA] and Independent members...
...nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court. "I believe there is substantial doubt as to how he would apply fundamental principles of constitutional law," said Specter. Until the Senate Judiciary Committee concluded its twelve days of confirmation hearings last Wednesday, Specter was the only undecided Republican on the 14-member panel. His defection virtually guaranteed an anti-Bork majority when the committee votes on the nomination this week...