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Stampfer's study received praise from a researcher who is also examining the affect of oral contraceptives on heart disease. "His is a very large study, [which was] well conducted. I think it's a pretty convincing study," said Lynn Rosenberg, director of the Slone Epidemiology Unit at Boston University Medical School...
Rosenberg said that the findings of a three-year study at the Slone center were consistent with Stampfer's work. "Our preliminary results are very similar to what Dr. Stampfer will publish tommorrow," she said yesterday...
DIED. Dennis Stone, 52, prominent epidemiologist who co-wrote the definitive study of the links between fetal deformities and drugs used by pregnant women; of a brain tumor; in Lexington, Mass. Slone's 1977 Birth Defects and Drugs in Pregnancy concluded that the most commonly used painkillers, tranquilizers and sleeping pills involve little risk to fetuses. Last year, however, his team reported that women who used oral contraceptives for a long time doubled or tripled their chances of having a heart attack...
...slip back toward politics as usual has raised no cries of alarm, because even the bad old system managed to produce a federal judiciary of a generally high quality. Many of the U.S.'s most respected jurists, including every Chief Justice but Harlan Slone, were political activists before taking the bench. But the Democratic Congress is now completing action on a bill to expand the federal judiciary by one-third, adding 113 new district and 35 new appellate judgeships. The bill has been delayed for years, awaking a Democratic President, and legislators are rubbing their hands in anticipation...
...Sandi Slone, a faculty member of the Museum of Fine Arts, is exhibiting some recent acrylic paintings. Sporting such varied titles as "Thunderstruck," "Rondo," and "Stalking the Giants," the works all follow the same theme and differ basically only in color...