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FILE NAME Newspaper & Magazine Articles NMA DATE 1970 May DOC NMA174 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Seattle Times Article - Asbestos Branded Cancer Cause 8 D2 The Seattle Tones Tuesday May 26 1970 Medical News Asbestos Branded Cancer Cause Demoted Doctor Who Rankled -3 F.D. A. Officials Is Demoted oe V. A. Administrator Defends Hospitals WASHINGTON UPI - The Veterans Administration says recent changes that some of its 166 hospitals suf fer from poo care filth and rat infestations are not true and provide an ut teriv distorted picture of V A care Donald k Johnson V A administrator and other top VA VA officials appeared at a news conference to answer recent charges in particula those made by Life maga- zine A Life article parportec to show veterans at the Bron VA hospital suffer ing from madequate care n sometimes squalid surround Ings We know from the mount ng number of and and and telephone calls we receive that more and more cre Americans Americans are becoming in- creasingly alarmed about * these purported conditions Johnsor said * And well they should be if these outlandish charges were true I want to emphasize as strongly as possible that such charges are not true and that they provide an utterly distorted picture of VA care Johason said an accredi tation commission sponsored by medical groups has urged that the bronx hospital s stat and administration should be commended for the evidence shown of con tinued quality care giv en to the patients HOUSTON UPI Government regulations are essential to controlling the only type of air pollution def- initely linked with lung can cer a New York environ mental medicine specialist believes Dr Irving J Selikoff said aboine aboine asbestos fibers coming from many maten als used in the construction ndustry pose a distres sing and often fatal hazard to men who work regularly around them Because asbestos is used so extensively in insulation and building materials he said its fibers can be found 10 a lesser degree in the lungs of almost every city dweller Selikoff told the 10th Inter national Cancer Congress that by themselves asbestos fibers cause both lung can cer and intestinal cancer In cigaret smokers be said they apparently team wah smoking byprod ucts to cause extra deadly results WHERE ASBESTOS can hecome airborne at should ei ther be controlled or the product should doned he said be aban I believe that governmenta regulation is essential to help the asbes tos industry Other cancer specialists at the corgress said yesterday cigarers by themselve are an almost certain cause of fatal lung nast turn cancer if a smoke goes the point of no re ' We may not have found the specific chemical that does it but there isn't any question but that cigaret smoke does cause cancer both in the human and in an imals Dr Oscar Auerbacn of the Veterans Administra tion Hospital in East Orange J said DR AUERBACH said up to a certain point which var- jes among smoker can individuals a kick his habit and precancerous cells in his lungs will die but after many years of smoking it does no good to quit because cancer wil develop anyway he said Di John W Turner of Springfield Mass defined the point of no return more precisely He said cigaret smokers who have consumed 200,000 cigarets about 20 years of smoking almost certainly will die from lung cancer or tobacco related diseases Scientist Airs Doubts About Transplant Scope KENOSHA Wis - AP Society as a whole rather than medical scientists by themselves is going to have to decide soon how far to go with preservation of life through organ transplarts a Nobel laureate said Monday George W Beadle said it won't be long before themsts can provide genes to improve the quality of life but that the gap between what 15 technologically possible and what is feasible in terms of bearable costs in human effort is being widened at a frightening rate Noise of Waterfalls Helps Stutterers LOS ANGLES - AP The hissing of a waterfall is music to a stutterer's ears the sound that may help him correct his speech defect researchers say Dr Marvan E Klein a psychiatrist from Detroit says that for some unex plained reason a person will stop stuttering 65 out of 100 times if the sound of his own vone s kept from his ears WASHINGTON AP The Food and Drug Adminis tration has quietly demoted the man who accused some agency bureaucrats of alter- ang laboratory conclusions which cast doubt on estab lished F D A regulatory policy F Charles A Commissione C Edwards reorgan ized a pathology unit last week making Dr Howard ? Richardson the acting No 2 man in a new pathology divi- Sion Dr Richardson had been the F D A's chief pathologist since 1968 Edwards installed Dr Bert J Vos as acting head of the pathology division according an FDA FDA FDA memorandum dated May 19 Dr Vas a long time agency official is a medical doctor but not a pathologist Dr Richardson was brought to revitalize D A pathology in part because of a reputation he gained the Veterans Administration as a nosed scrapper committed to scientific int^grit knowledgeable F A officials say . 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