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...influence on other judges who are grappling with similar suits brought by thousands of women. One reason: Jones took the unusual step of appointing four independent experts to assess the purported link between the rupture of silicone implants and specific physical complaints. These experts--an immunologist, an immunologist/toxicologist, a rheumatologist and a polymer chemist--arrived at the same conclusion reached by many others, including Dr. Marcia Angell, executive editor of the New England Journal of Medicine: localized problems, notably the painful hardening of breast tissue, can accompany implants, but as yet no compelling evidence links the leakage of silicone...
Following what some have called a breach in research and journalistic ethics, a prominent Harvard rheumatologist faces an investigation into whether he failed to disclose a conflict of interest regarding an article he co-authored...
...Robert J. Pinkel, rheumatologist and clinical assistant professor of medicine at the Medical College of Ohio, said. "[The cursively relevance is filling in the basic since I graduated twenty-nine years ago. I need to know this to keep up with modern research in my own field...
...country now have chiropractors on staff, and multidisciplinary clinics that offer both medical and chiropractic care have sprung up in several urban centers. In addition, a small band of "research" chiropractors has begun testing the method in carefully designed clinical trials. "Manipulative medicine," declares Dr. Nortin Hadler, a rheumatologist at the University of North Carolina, "is no longer a taboo topic...
Most doctors are skeptical of this theory. "Chiropractors may sound very authoritative," says Chicago rheumatologist Robert Katz, "but their basic understanding of the pathophysiology of the spine is simply not there." Chiropractors respond that they spend at least four years studying the subtleties of the spine, including exhaustive courses in anatomy, pathology, biochemistry and microbiology, and are in fact far more knowledgeable than many medical doctors about this anatomical region...