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...this? Partly it's owing to patient misconceptions. "Patients are concerned if they enter a clinical trial that they may be part of the unlucky group that gets the placebo or 'dummy treatment' and not the real medicine," says Dr. Bob Comis, president of the National Cancer Cooperative Groups. They think the placebo group gets no treatment at all, when in fact it gets whatever is considered the best current standard of care...
...more information on cancer clinical trials visit www.alphacancer.org You can also e-mail Dr. Ian at ianmedical@aol.com
...writing to object to Dr. Ian Smith's article "Cell-Phone Scare," reacting to ABC News's 20/20 report [PERSONAL TIME: YOUR HEALTH, Nov. 1]. Those of us who spent four months investigating the safety of cell phones read Smith's column with disbelief. How could the description of our report be so inaccurate? We questioned whether Smith had even seen our two-part, 24-min. broadcast. He wrote that he was "startled by the possibility that ABC could have uncovered a smoking gun in a medical controversy that has been simmering unresolved for years." But we specifically reported, "There...
Americans are finally waking up to the destructive consequences of 15 years of carbohydrate abuse. Everyone hates low-carb diets except the people who are on them! Congratulations to Dr. Woodson Merrell for his piece "How I Became a Low-Carb Believer." He had the courage to speak up. DEBORAH FRIEDSON CHUD, M.D. Tufts University School of Medicine Medford, Mass...
...gimmick diet that promises weight loss while defying the laws of physics. Our body weight is the simple net sum of calories (from whatever source) ingested and expended. When we consume more than we burn, we get fat; when we burn more than we consume, we lose weight. If Dr. Atkins eats 6,000 calories of bacon cheeseburgers a day, he will soon become the blubber ball that so many Americans are. THOMAS M. GINN, M.D. Salisbury...