Word: physicians
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...socialize -- even when clerks gave him a cold shoulder. He also addressed the local junior high on AIDS. Slowly the town changed. Students started cutting class to hear him speak, and parents appeared in the back of the lecture hall to listen. When Broussard's health deteriorated, a physician in nearby Jennings, John Sabatier, confessed that he knew virtually nothing about AIDS but promised to learn as much as he could as fast as he could. Seventh- and eighth-graders sent letters saying they would never tell a dirty gay joke because they now had a friend...
...Harvard faculty members, a moral and political philosopher and a physician who studies poverty, were recently honored for their creativity with MacArthur Foundation "genius" awards...
Once again with a physician the next morning, Cisneros can only think of the surgery to come. Doctors must reshape John Paul's heart in time to keep up with his growth. Cisneros dreads explaining to him what lies ahead. "I couldn't bear his questions," he says. "Nothing in my life has prepared me for this. Nothing could rival the sense of total panic that comes over me when I think of this surgery...
...ABORTION DRUG HAS BEEN A source of controversy ever since its invention was announced in 1982 by Baulieu, a French physician who worked as a researcher at Roussel Uclaf. The concept was rather simple: RU 486, an antiprogestin, could break a fertilized egg's bond to the uterine wall and thus induce a miscarriage. An injection two days later of prostaglandin, a hormone-like substance, would force uterine contractions and speed the ejection of the embryo. It took six more years and tests on more than 17,000 women before the French government announced that RU 486 would be made...
Another member of the review group, Assistant Professor of Medicine and Health Care Policy Dr. David Blumenthal '70, draws from his experiences as Senate aide, physician and academic...