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...point, yes. Many of his criticisms of the anticholesterol campaign have been voiced by respected researchers in the New England Journal of Medicine and the Journal of the American Medical Association. Certainly, many people have an overly simplistic view of the relationship between diet and heart disease. Observes Dr. Allan Brett, an assistant professor at the Harvard Medical School: "Some patients have been led to believe that lowering cholesterol is like magic: eat a bowl of oat bran, and you're cured. For most, that's not true...
Moore's contention that diet has little impact on cholesterol levels is an oversimplification. Some patients respond dramatically to diet therapy, others hardly at all. The author cites studies showing that people who change their eating habits generally lower their cholesterol levels by 5% to 10%. But Dr. James Cleeman, coordinator of the NCEP, maintains that the typical reduction range is more like...
...California at San Francisco announced that, in test tubes at least, Compound Q could kill HIV-infected cells while leaving healthy cells unaffected. The substance quickly found its way into the U.S. and to desperate AIDS patients, who administered the drug on their own. "Word was out," says Dr. Alan Levin, medical director of the Project Inform trials in San Francisco. "People started getting it and injecting themselves in their kitchens...
...part, that "soul-searching" process is the result of several controversies which have rocked Harvard's prestigious Med School over the past year--including the revelations that Dr. Shervert H. Frazier, former head of psychiatry at the Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital, plagiarized an article he had written early in his career...
...current form, the NIH proposals are designed to control conflicts of interest between industry and academic researchers by requiring researchers to disclose financial interests and outside professional activities, said Dr. M. Janet Newburgh of NIH's Office of Extramural Research...