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FILE NAME Newspaper & Magazine Articles NMA DATE 1970 May
DOC NMA174
DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Seattle Times Article - Asbestos Branded Cancer Cause
D2 The Scattle Times
Tuesday May 2t 1970
Doctor Who RankledRankled =~ RIED
Medical Asbestos Branded Cancer Cause
News
F.D. Officials Is Demoted Xr
V. A. Administrator
Defends Hospitals
WASHINGTON APN -
The S erans Admuostratius
ways recent ceanges thail
acre of its 146 hospital
ter fruce pan
care filth and
infestations are no
Imit and
provide
an
teriv distected picture
A care
Donald L Johnson A administrator and other top V clicials appeared ut a news conference to answer recent charges in particula Those made by Lile magin
nce A Life article parpurtee to show Leterans & the Broes VA VA hospital suffer ing from mate cate n sometimes sq.weled surround
APR
We kauns from the mount 11 rember of
uleshoes calle we receive
that nure and more SIOLETE
means means are becoming in
etcaserogly
bikju
aimul
*
these purported conditions
*
Johnsne sand And well they
should be if these outlandish changes were traie 1sten 1sten to
emphasize as strongly
as
charges posible laat vie not lived
sech charges
lived that they
provide an etterly distorted distorted picture of V 4 care
Jahon and an accredi
La commission sponsored
by medical gnwps has urged
that st
s the bronx hospital
I and administation administation
should be commended from
the evidence shown of con
und quality care 20
patients
HOUSTON -- UPE Government regulations are
essential to onemolling the only type of air pollution del anitely linked with lung can cer a New York enviro mental medicine specialise nelieves
Dr Irving J Self and bone bone asbestos s coming from many materi ats used in the construction
pose a distres and often Intal hazar
seen who work repulsi's
around them
Becava asbestos is used so extensiveis in insulationN and building materials be said its fibers can be found lie & Besser degree in the tunes of almost every cite dwelle
Selikoff told the 10th been
Ouational Cancer Congress that hy themselves ashestos Abers cause both inng can cer and intestinal
cancer The smokers
te sand they apparently team with smoking byprod ucts to cause extra deadly results
WHERE ASBESTOS com
become aubarne it should ce
ther be controlled or the
prodat should doned he said
he aban I belers
that
governmenta reputan
is essential to help the asbes
" tus industre Other cancer specialists at the compress said yesterday
cigarers by themselve ure an alrust tertata cause of fatal
Jung cancer if a smoke 'goes nas the oant of no re
*
lem
We may not have found
the specific chemical that does it but there isn't any
question bail that gin
smoke does cause cane.fr
both in the human and
an
mals
Dr Oscar Auerbach Veterans Administra
tion Hospital on East Crange
N
,
DR AUERBACH said up
to a certain point
var-
JPS Manoogiedividuals smoker can
Manoogiedividuals a kick his habit
and
precancerous cells in his
lungs will die but after many
years of sevesking does
an
sort to qua because canter e develop anyway he
In W Jurner of
Springfield Mass defined the point Gl na reburn more precisely He said gent smokers who have consunin 200.000 cigarets about 30 years of smoking almost certami will die from lung
cancer or inhacso related
diseases
Scientist Airs Doubls
through organ transplants a Nobel laureate said Monday
George W Beadle sud it won't be long before them
and what is feasible in terms
of bearable costs in human
effort
bemg wadenen at a
frightering rate
Noise of Waterfalls
Helps Stutterers
LOS ANGLES
AP
The hissing of a waterfall is music to a statuere's ears
the sound that may help him
correct his speech deluct re-
searchers sty
About Transplant Scape
KENOSHA Wis - AP
- Society as u velike nat^ri
than medical
scientists by
themselves is going to have
to decide soon how far to go
with preservation of fe
Dr Marvan E Klem a
psychiatrist from Detroit says that for some unex plained reason a persba Wil stop sluttering 65 out of 100 times if the sound of this cwn We s kept from his ears
WASHINGTON AP
The Food and Drug Adininistration has quietly demoted the man who accused some
agency bureaur rats of altereng laboratory conclusions which cast doubt on estab
listed A regulatory
policy D 4 Commissione
Candles C. Edwards reorgan
1200 a pathology ant lau week making Dr. Howard I Rushardson the acting No %
man in a new pathology divi
SIDA
Richaron had
been the F D A's chief
pathologii since 1968 Edwards installed Dr Bert
J Vas as acting head of the
pathology division accord-
ing to an
A memoras-
dior dated May 19 Dr Vus a long time agency official 18 a medical doctor but not a
pathologist Dr. Richardson was tu revitalize F.
_A_pathology in pur^'because
of a repellation he gained un the Veterans Administration
asanard asanard asanard nused scraper
committed to scientific int^g
em knowledgeable
FDA .
officials say
.
FDA FDA memoranda show
that Dr. Richardson nas que
klej time agency ollu
3 dung the past year and a half with insistent de
mends for apgrading pattulagy in the openly Pathology as the branch of medicine
dealing with the causes of tissue injury and deach
A memorandurn written by
Dr. Richardson Oct. 20 1969
charged that bureaucrats with outed scientific tran
recomndatis inf expunged conclusio
and recommendations froin
ex reports of certain animal
Tenents The expenmeals in question appeared to coo trader official agency poi hons on the safety of some
food additives
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