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Some experts believe that Bay Area residents may be peculiarly vulnerable to the syndrome, precisely because they have been anticipating a cataclysm for years. "Chronic stress is very harmful," notes Dr. James Shore of the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver, who surveyed victims of the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens. "Preparedness can make people more susceptible...
Soon survivors will suffer a host of complaints, from headaches and stomach pains to flashbacks and suicidal thoughts. Victims of Hurricane Hugo, which lashed the Southeastern U.S. last month, are showing the expected strains. "About all of the people we talk to have sleep disturbances," says Dr. James Ballenger, head of the psychiatric institute at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. "They are constantly fatigued. They leave briefcases at home. They forget appointments. They cannot concentrate...
...with disaster, may be particularly troubled by the grim sights and smells. "I don't care how professional your firemen and policemen are," says Jim Worlund, an Oakland emergency planner, referring to an amputation performed on a victim on the collapsed Nimitz Freeway, "that's hard to live with." Dr. Edward McCarroll of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Washington last year conducted a survey of 150 military and civilian personnel who participated in rescue efforts at military disasters. He found that many were overwhelmed when they discovered a body that resembled them or when they handled victims...
...colleague Harold E. Varmus, 49, were awakened early last Monday with word that the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm had awarded them the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, both were startled. Bishop called the news "surreal" and Varmus insisted on verifying the information. Others were less surprised. Said Dr. David Baltimore of M.I.T.'s Whitehead Institute, who won in 1975 the prize for research in the same field: "Their work established a new paradigm for thinking about cancer...
...occasion was somewhat marred by the claims of a French researcher, Dr. Dominique Stehelin, that he deserved at least part of the prize. Stehelin, who assisted in the UCSF study but is now at the Pasteur Institute in Lille, France, called his omission "very unfair and rotten." But others who were present at the time of the original experiments said that Stehelin, though a key member of the research team, nevertheless worked under the supervision of Varmus and Bishop. The Nobel Committee stood by its decision...