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Damage appeared to be worst in Whittier, the closest suburban area to the epicenter. Marsha Andersen, a spokeswoman for Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital, said 60 people had been treated for earthquake related injuries...
Drugs, however, are not a substitute for diet and exercise, warns Ira Goldberg, an endocrinologist at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City. He has already uncovered backsliders among his lovastatin patients. "We saw a couple of people whose cholesterol levels had gone down 30% to 40% but then started creeping back up." Doctors are concerned that lifelong use of lovastatin, which could cost $1,000 or more a year, may cause some people to develop cataracts or liver problems. "The real test will be the next few years, when a lot of people are taking the drug," says...
...adrenal-cell implants to correct Parkinson's, a neural disorder that afflicts an estimated 1 million Americans. At the Rochester conference, doctors from China to Mexico reported successes in dozens of adrenal implants. At least four U.S. medical centers, including New York University in Manhattan and Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's in Chicago, are planning to perform the operation on at least 30 Parkinson's victims in the next six months...
...support of segments of South Korean society other than students. Housewives, businessmen and assorted onlookers shouted encouragement and occasionally joined the marchers, who in many cases were their sons and daughters. In Pusan, the country's second largest city and the scene of a demonstration involving 50,000 people, Presbyterian Minister Cho Chang Sop, 60, proudly reported that both of his college-age children had joined the protest. Said he: "Nowadays most of the parents support the kids." In Songnam, ten miles south of Seoul, a protest march led by a group of about 100 elderly people was joined...
With Kim Dae Jung under house arrest, Kim Young Sam has assumed a larger role in opposition affairs. A small, lively man who jogs for 45 minutes each morning and serves as a Presbyterian elder, the younger Kim has become highly visible around Seoul. He scuffled briefly with security forces last week when he theatrically sought access to Kim Dae Jung's house. The encounter won him some publicity and a bruised leg, which he proudly displayed to journalists...