Word: safe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...read your fine Essay, "Why Cars Must-and Can-Be Made Safer" [April 1] on the day we won Senate passage of a historic tire safety bill. I congratulate you for a thorough analysis of this emotion-filled issue without repeating the cliché that a safe car would look like a Sherman tank. There is an awakening interest in this issue in both houses of Congress. A number of us will continue fighting for safe cars; we appreciate your help...
...realize that it will have to try harder to improve the car itself. To what extent could new designs reduce fatalities? Safety engineers at Harvard, Cornell, some of the insurance companies and in the Government believe that it is possible to build a stylish and economical yet fairly fail-safe car that would cut highway casualties by half. Achieving that would require, among other things, more reliable brakes and sturdier tires, bigger mirrors, better window visibility, and other devices to help prevent the "first collision"-the crash between a car and another object. Much more important, the safety scientists have...
...Safe Are They? Many doctors who approve of most of Wilson's hormone therapy see no reason for an older woman to have bleeding episodes, and they feel there may be good reasons why she should not. There are others who express either skepticism or opposition to virtually any hormone replacement. The authoritative and conservative Medical Letter grudgingly concedes that for women suffering the obvious and immediate discomforts of the menopause, estrogens are "relatively harmless" if given for only a few months, or a year or two at most, and may be helpful for emotional distress. But the Letter...
Since increasing numbers of reputable, middle-of-the-road gynecologists and other doctors have taken to prescribing estrogens, even though they may not accept Dr. Wilson's more extravagant claims, two questions are constantly reiterated: How safe are the hormones? Could they eventually cause cancer? The answers are surprisingly clear. If a woman takes only the prescribed dose-but no more-the hormones seem to be perfectly safe. The only patients for whom they emphatically should not be prescribed appear to be those who have already had cancer of the breast or uterus, those with liver disease, and (just...
Drug safety, said the President, has the highest priority. And he added an ominous warning: "Further action may be necessary to protect the consumer against harmful cosmetics and against medical devices that are neither safe nor effective." Even Go-Go Goddard could hardly have asked for stronger backing...