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Just as physicians were building a fire under FDA to speed approval of one new drug (see above], a doctor on the agency's own staff raked it over the coals for having approved too many drugs too fast. Pediatrician John O. Nestor, 50, joined FDA's New Drug Division two years ago because he thought it was underestimating the hazards to infants and children of drugs that might be safe enough for adults. Dr. Nestor was so disillusioned by what he saw of FDA's operations that last week he appeared before Senator Hubert Humphrey...
...fascination for both his curiosities in life along the Passaic River-in his little town and in the ugly, faceless towns around it. He practiced medicine there for 40 years, a tough but generous doctor with a humanist's simple notion of his work: "I'm a pediatrician. I take care of babies and try to make them grow. I enjoy it. Nothing is more appropriate to a man than an interest in babies...
...barbiturates to kill an infant. Suzanne's husband, Jean Van de Put, 35, was given little say. Soon after she got home, Suzanne mixed the barbiturates with the honey-sweetened formula. The week-old baby died. The police, tipped off by Mme. Van de Put's suspicious pediatrician, found not only the dead baby but the cause of its deformities: thalidomide in the Van de Puts' medicine chest...
...Discouraged." Last week Pediatrician Helen B. Taussig, 64, who did the basic research on blue babies and suggested the operative approach to Surgeon Blalock, gave an encouraging report on the progress of the 1,700 patients who have had the blue-baby operation at Baltimore's Johns Hopkins. Among these and other victims of congenital heart defects, at least 235 with whom Dr. Taussig has been able to keep in close touch have become parents: 76 men and 159 women. In 160 pregnancies where the father had the heart defect, six children were born malformed, three had heart defects...
...kick and punch their children, twist their arms, beat them with hammers or the buckle end of belts, burn them with cigarettes or electric irons, and scald them with whatever happens to be on the stove. Gathering documentation from 71 hospitals, a University of Colorado team headed by Pediatrician C. Henry Kempe found 302 battered-child cases in a single year; 33 of the children died, 85 suffered permanent brain damage. An accompanying Journal editorial predicts that when statistics on the battered-child syndrome are complete, "It is likely that it will be found to be a more frequent cause...