Word: slone
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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...