Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...link will come as a result of the appointment of Dr. K. Frank Austen, assistant professor of Medicine at the Medical School, as Physician-in-Chief of the Robert B. Brigham Hospital...
...also experimenting with ways to keep the intimate feeling of a small campus. Next fall 600 freshmen will be selected at random to live in the same dorms, take the same classes and eat together, to form a "college within a college." But under Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe, a physician and former dean of the Kansas Medical School, the stress is on expansion. Enrollment will go up another 25% by 1972. A $30 million building-construction program was begun in 1965. To top it all, an $18.7 million scholarship and faculty-salary fund drive was launched last week...
Matter of Tone. After just ten weeks on the job, Goddard-the first physician in 40 years to chair the FDA-said that he had seen flagrant examples of sloppy research, improper labeling, and misleading advertising. In the area of new drugs still under investigation, he was astounded by "low-quality work" and "conscious withholding of unfavorable animal or clinical data." He had also been "shocked at the clear attempts to slip something...
None of them actually did get by, but Goddard cited examples of attempts that might make any physician cringe. One manufacturer of a new drug wanted to label it "effective in a few" cases of cancer. Goddard said that of 127 patients treated in trials, only five had had temporary reductions in the size of tumors; to him this was not at all effective. In another instance, the maker of a long-acting sulfa, which had been clinically proved to be effective only in treating the genitourinary tract, wanted to imply on the label that the drug could be prescribed...
...Levine had been a staff physician at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and was in consultant in cardiology there when he died. He was also affiliated with six other hospitals throughout the country...