Faculty Bibliography

Federal health officials Thursday recommended coronary bypass surgery over angioplasty for diabetics with coronary artery disease because of surprising long-term findings from the world's largest study of the two heart procedures. The recommendation applies only to diabetics treated with insulin or pills called oral hypoglycemics to lower blood sugar who have two or more blocked coronary arteries, the officials said at a news conference at the National Institutes of Health

BETHESDA, Md. - Federal health officials Thursday recommended coronary bypass surgery over angioplasty for diabetics with coronary artery disease because of surprising long-term findings from the world's largest study of the two heart procedures. The recommendation applies only to diabetics treated with insulin or pills called oral hypoglycemics to lower blood sugar who have two or more blocked coronary arteries, the officials said at a news conference. The officials said they were alerting doctors about the recommendation. On average, about 50 diabetic patients fitting the criteria undergo bypass surgery or angioplasty each day in this country

Consider Dr. Barry J. Marshall, who was among the winners of this year's Albert Lasker Awards, which were announced yesterday. Dr. Marshall was honored for finding that a bacterium, not stress, causes inflammation of the stomach and ulcers. The research was partly based on experiments he did on himself in the early 1980's. Dr. Rosalyn S. Yalow won a Lasker Award in 1976 and a Nobel Prize in 1977, many years after she and Dr. Solomon A. Berson at the Bronx Veterans Administration Hospital developed the radioimmunoassay technique to detect tiny amounts of hormones and other substances. By 1976, Dr. Berson had died, an illustration that prize-worthy scientists need the good fortune to survive until their work is recognized. Posthumous Nobel Prizes and Lasker awards are not given. The Nobel awards were created by the will of Alfred Nobel, the Swedish chemist and inventor of dynamite. Yet the prizes almost did not come into being. The King of Sweden and the Prime Minister went to court to fight Nobel's will in part because they believed that his wealth would be scattered around the world, to Sweden's loss

Presumably, those with the abnormality of blood pressure regulation have had it all their lives. So the findings would not fully explain why some people with it suddenly develop chronic fatigue syndrome and others never do. A strong possibility, Dr. Calkins said, is that a virus infection or some other unidentified event sets off chronic fatigue syndrome, since so many people date an abrupt onset of the syndrome to a viral infection. 'To some degree, it is diet-related,' Dr. Calkins said. 'If you look at the differences in chronic fatigue syndrome between different countries, you don't see it in South America and Asia, where the diet is high in salt.' The 23 patients in the study were recruited from chronic fatigue syndrome support groups and met the criteria set by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for a diagnosis of chronic fatigue syndrome. They were compared with 14 people who responded to an advertisement placed by the researchers and who did not have the syndrome

When Dr. Valavanur A. Subramanian ran a scalpel along Edward Dowling's left fourth rib to make a three-inch incision from near the nipple to the breast bone, the operating room at Manhattan's Lenox Hill Hospital was eerily silent. The operation ealier this month on Dowling, a 66-year-old piano tuner, involved a new procedure known as minimally invasive direct coronary bypass surgery. Instead of stopping the heart and having a heart-lung machine take over its duties, Subramanian's team performed a delicate operation on the organ as it continued to beat. As a heart-lung machine temporarily pumps oxygenated blood through the body, a surgeon takes veins from a leg, an artery from the chest, arm or abdomen, and sews it to a coronary artery. The graft restores adequate blood flow by bypassing a blockage caused by a build-up of fatty deposits

Attorney General Janet Reno disclosed Thursday that she has developed Parkinson's disease, but said she planned to stay on the job. Reno, who is right-handed, said the tremor is fully controlled by Sinemet, a pill she has been taking three times a day since the condition was diagnosed three weeks ago. Reno's physician, Dr. Jonathan H. Pincus, professor and chairman emeritus of the Neurology Department at Georgetown University Medical Center, said Reno has mild Parkinson's disease that is fully controlled with medication. The tremor in her left hand is Reno's only symptom from Parkinson's, Pincus said in an interview

[Janet Reno]'s physician, Jonathan Pincus, said Reno has mild [Parkinson]'s disease that is fully controlled with medication. The tremor in her left hand is Reno's only symptom from Parkinson's, Pincus said in an interview. Parkinson's typically begins insidiously and Reno's case was no exception. She said the shaking in her hand began almost imperceptibly last spring, and she thought it would go away. But when it did not, she consulted her doctor. Pincus said he 'would anticipate no serious disability from Parkinson's disease for Reno for 15 to 20 years and even then she should be fine,' although there is no guarantee she will not develop other disorders

WASHINGTON - Attorney General Janet Reno disclosed Thursday that she has developed Parkinson's disease, but she said she planned to stay on the job. Reno, who is right-handed, said the tremor is fully controlled by Sinemet, a pill she has been taking three times a day since the condition was diagnosed three weeks ago. Reno's physician, Dr. Jonathan H. Pincus, professor and chairman emeritus of the neurology department at Georgetown University Medical Center, said Reno has mild Parkinson's disease that is fully controlled with medication. The tremor in her left hand is her only symptom from Parkinson's, Pincus said in an interview

Attorney General Janet Reno disclosed that she had developed Parkinson's disease, but said she planned to stay on the job

WASHINGTON Attorney General Janet Reno disclosed yesterday that she has developed Parkinson's disease, but said she planned to stay on the job. Reno, who is right-handed, said the tremor is fully controlled by Sinemet, a pill she has been taking three times a day since the condition was diagnosed three weeks ago. Reno's physician, Dr. Jonathan H. Pincus, professor and chairman emeritus of the neurology department at Georgetown University Medical Center, said Reno has mild Parkinson's disease that is fully controlled with medication. The tremor in her left hand is Reno's only symptom from Parkinson's, Pincus said in an interview