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NASA's director of life sciences, Dr. Charles Berry, is unable to explain why the potassium-loss problem, which had not bothered members of earlier missions, surfaced during the last Apollo flight. But the astronauts' physician was determined not to let it become a hazard for Apollo 16. In addition to replenishing the crew's lost potassium through diet, Berry has safeguarded the spacemen by setting up an emergency cardiology service to monitor their heartbeats and transmit their electrocardiograms by telephone to two heart specialists. He has also supplied the astronauts with drugs to be used...
Hiatt--who has been Physician-in-Chief at Beth Israel Hospital--is well-known for his research in cellular growth and in the application of scientific findings to the control of cancer...
Hiatt is 46 years old. He has been associated with Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Hospital since 1955. In 1964 he became Blumgart Professor and Physician-in-Chief...
...from the uterine lining for analysis, requires hospitalization and is impractical unless the disease is already suspected. By then it may be too late; endometrial cancer kills about 3,500 American women a year. The Gravlee Jet Washer, a new device now being marketed by the Upjohn Company, gives physicians a less complicated way to get samples of endometrial cells. A disposable syringe attached to a soft plastic tube, it is used to introduce a saline solution into the uterus, then to draw the liquid out. Cells from the uterine lining carried out in the solution can then be analyzed...
Engleman, 26, now an intern at the University of California in San Francisco, believes that his study actually shows prejudice against women, not just woman doctors. To support that conclusion, he cites typical responses. One patient who had never even met a female physician said: "A male knows more and takes his work more seriously. He puts his mind to it. A woman has home problems." Another rationalized: "No, I've never seen a woman doctor, but I resent them anyway. How can they be doctors and raise a family? Chances are they don't do either very...