Word: physicians
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...mouth, however, consumers and doctors have not been waiting. "Ladies come in asking for it because their friends are using it," says Tucker. "Or they steal it from their children who are using it for acne." Prescribing Retin-A is perfectly legal. Observes FDA Spokesman Herman Janiger: "If a physician wants to use an approved drug for unapproved purposes, that's what's called 'accepted medical practice.' " Notes Stephen Kurtin, a New York City dermatologist: "It is the single most popular prescription I'm giving...
...Harley. In the course of examining the controversial practice of alternative medicine in Britain, Cronin endured a session of vigorous foot massage by a reflexologist, who pronounced her in excellent health. Recalls Cronin: "I awoke the next day with a vastly swollen cheek, which was diagnosed by a standard physician as mumps...
...Americans. Not long ago many believed, as two researchers put it in the 1950s, that "alcoholism is no more a disease than thieving or lynching." Such attitudes are fading fast, to be sure, but not without leaving a residue of ambivalence. Says LeClair Bissell, 59, a recovered alcoholic and physician: "At the same time we say through our lips that alcoholism is a chronic disease, many of us feel in our guts that it's a moral or self-inflicted problem...
...parents joined a quasi-religious organization whose members were mostly affluent and conservative. "They wanted to save the world," says Glenn's younger sister Jessie. "In the process, this cult split up our family." The elder Closes moved to the Belgian Congo (now Zaire), where Glenn's father, a physician, ran a clinic. The children were left in various boarding schools in Switzerland and Connecticut...
Even before the stock-market crash last month evoked fears of a recession, some 20 million people in the U.S. were going hungry on a regular basis. So says Hunger Reaches Blue Collar America, a report released last week by the Physician Task Force on Hunger in America, a public health advocacy group. Using government figures and its own survey of some 25 depressed areas in eight states, the task force concluded that despite steady economic growth, 32.4 million people live at or below the federal poverty level ($9,069 for a family of three), and many of them rely...