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...Later Rutstein lectured the two speakers on the lack of funds for operating a medical building once it had been constructed. "It is important," he added, "that we discuss the technical facts of Federal aid to medicine...
...spirited debate at the Medical School yesterday afternoon, liberal Senator Richard L. Neuberger and Congress-man Walter H. Judd, a "progressive-conservative," clashed over the "role of government in medicine"--and heard a blunt lecture from David D. Rutstein '30, professor of Preventive Medicine, on the specific needs of medical schools and hospitals...
Writing in the October issue of the Atlantic, Dr. Rutstein defends the validity of evidence linking cigarette smoking and lung cancer. The article is in the form of an "open letter" to Dr. Clarence C. Little '10, chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Tobacco Industry Research Committee...
Citing 18 studies in five countries, Dr. Rutstein claimed that these show "either that patients with lung cancer are predominantly cigarette smokers, or that cigarette smokers have more lung cancer than do non-smokers." He said that he considered the evidence to be stronger than the evidence of Dr. Edward Jenner in 1796 when he recommended vaccination against smallpox...
...Little said that he was preparing a response to Dr. Rutstein, to be published in December's Atlantic. "I still need more evidence before I can be convinced," he stated...