Word: physician
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Appointed 18 months ago, with Engine Manufacturer J. Irwin Miller of Columbus, Ind., as chairman, the 15-member commission included five physicians. Two of the best known: San Francisco's Dr. Dwight L. Wilbur, president-elect of the American Medical Association,* and the Mayo Clinic's Dr. James C. Cain, the President's old friend and personal physician. In its proposals for wide and deep reforms the commission showed remarkable unanimity; there were only half a dozen footnotes of individual dissent in its 86 pages of review and recommendations...
...autopsy showed that Green, 18, son of a Des Moines physician, had been drugged, strangled and sexually assaulted. When police went back to question Weinstein, they discovered he had fled. In the next several days, as half a dozen students came forth to describe their own encounters with Weinstein, it became apparent that the chubby, jolly co-owner of Ye Olde Tobacconist shop was more than just a friendly neighborhood storekeeper...
Goddard's opinion, which carries considerably more weight than that of any private physician, was particularly surprising because the FDA director has been so strict in demanding that drug companies show clear proof of the efficacy and safety of their products before he allows them on the market. There is still almost no research, however, into what marijuana does-and does not do-to the human mind and body and no scientific evidence that proves or disproves that it is better or worse than alcohol...
...physician or surgeon would be delighted to find a preventive or treat ment for atherosclerosis. Dr. Fuson had an added personal reason for investigating cholestyramine, he told the American College of Surgeons last week. In his early 30s, he already had a cholesterol reading above 250 mg., on the edge of the danger zone, and he weighed 226 Ibs. There was a depressing history of heart disease in his family...
Allport is survived by his wife, Ada, a son, Dr. Robert Allport, who is a physician in California, and three grandchildren. Services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday in Christ Church, Cambridge, with burial to follow