Word: schaller
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...joints characteristic of rheumatic fever begin. "If children don't have a clinical sore throat, no one thinks of strep," says Pediatrician Ellen Wald at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. As a result, youngsters have gone untreated even though doctors can usually prevent rheumatic fever with penicillin. Warns Jane Schaller, chief pediatrician at New England Medical Center in Boston: "Parents will have to pay more attention to what appears to be a simple cold...
Because there is no vaccine or cure for the disease, prevention is still the best bet. "I'd recommend that any sore throat be cultured," New England's Schaller says. Other experts are worried that parents and doctors too young to remember the rheumatic-fever wards of the past may not recognize the warning signs of a forgotten menace until too late...
...government] has accused the Chilean Medical Association of running a clandestine clinic to help terrorists," Schaller said...
Physicians For Human Rights, a national organization made up of physicians and health professionals, was the main sponsor of Schaller's trip...
...Schaller said she wants to bring attention to the injustices of the Chilean government. She will make appeals to the U.S. Congress, to the State Department and President Reagan...