Amerikai Magyar Szó, 1981. július-december (35. évfolyam, 27-50. szám)

1981-11-05 / 42. szám

Thursday, Nov. 5 1981. AMERIKAI MAGYAR SZÓ 9. Hungary fights arteriosclerosis Hungary was among the first in Europe to hold 20 years ago a scientific conference on arterioscle­rosis. The founder members of the European Athe­rosclerosis Group include Dr. Sándor Gero of Hun­gary. At present three Hungarian experts are taking part in the work of the European group. The spe­cialists of the Pathological Department of the Bu­dapest Semmelweis Medical University were the first in the world to demonstrate the biochemical mechanism leading to the deposition of blood lipids on the vein walls. Research is on for developing medicines to reduce lipids and the Miscleron drug made by the Chinoin Pharmaceutical Factory is al­ready on sale. Clinical tests are progressing on other anti-arteriosclerosis medicines. The immunological background of the atheriosclerosis was put under study in Hungary as one of the first countries to do so. A wide-ranging cooperation has emerged in re­search into cardiac infarction with experts of seve­ral Hungarian institutions involved. At the recom­mendation of the World Health Organization, the Hungarian Cardiological Institute has prepared an “infarction register” covering half a million people in Budapest. The workers of the centre measure the incidence of heart attack and study its frequency by age. sex and profession. They closely follow the outcome of the trouble, extent of cure and study the role of risk factors in the emergence of the disease. An ambitious plan has been launched at the Budapest Institue to examine the human and' social conditions of the incidence of heart and arte­riosclerosis troubles and on its basis a scientifically founded strategy of the prevention of such prob­lems will be elaborated. Another method for the prevention of cardiac troubles has "beer, evolved at the Budapest-based National Medical Advanced Training Institute. Here the moment alarming symptoms appear, the patient is treated as if he had actually suffered from infarction. The therapy in­cludes bedrest to the patient and treatment with nitrate compounds, Propranol, and small-dose He- paron. Thanks to the preventive method, merely 17 of the 100 patients with alarming symptoms during 1962-67 got infarction. In the following five-year period, however, the figure dropped to 10, falling further to 8 by the late 1970s. Part of the comprehensive defence against heart infarction, a multi-phase screening system is to be introduced in Hungary shortly covering lung, heart, and kidney conditions, as well as blood pressure and sugar level of blood. If there are any indica­tions of imminent heart infarction, prevention can be started well in time. REMEMBER YOUR HUMANITY Excerpts from the often quoted address of George F. Kennan, delivered on the occasion of receiving the Albert Einstein Peace Prize last May. The tre­mendous peace demonstrations in Europe seem to be a belated response to the moving appeal of Ken­nan and ...Albert Einstein. Adequate words are lacking to express the full seriousness of our present situation. It is not just that we are for the moment on a collision course politically with the Soviet Union, and that the process of rational communication between the two governments seems to have broken down completely; it is also—and even more importantly—the fact that the ultimate sanction behind the conflict­ing policies of these two governments is a type and volume of weaponry which could not possibly be used without utter disaster for us all. For over 30 years wise and far-seeing people have been warning us about the futility of any war fought with nuclear weapons and about the dangers involved in their cultivation. Some of the first of these voices to be raised were those of great scientists, including outstandingly that of Albert Einstein himself. But there has been no lack of others. Every president of this country, from Dwight Eisenhower to Jimmy Carter, has tried to remind us that there could be no such thing as victory in a war fought with such weapons. So have a great many other eminent persons. Look at the record. Over all these years the competition in the development of nuclear weaponry has proceeded steadily, relent­lessly, without the faintest regard for all these warning voices. We have gone on piling weapon upon weapon, missile upon missile, new levels of destructiveness upon old ones. We have done this helplessly, almost invol­untarily: like the victims of some sort of hypnotism, like men in a dream, like lem­mings heading for the sea, like the children of Hamlin marching blindly along behind their Pied Piper. And the result is that today we have achieved, we and the Russians together, in the creation of these devices and their means of delivery, levels of redundancy of such grotesque dimensions as to defy rational understanding. ____ In the final week of his life, Albert Einstein signed the last of the collective appeals against the development of nuclear weapons that he was ever to sign. He was dead before it appeared. It was an appeal drafted, I gather, by Bertrand Russell. I had my differences with Russell at the time as I do now in retrospect; but I would like to quote one sentence from the final paragraph of that statement, not only because it was the last one Einstein ever signed, but because it sums up, I think, all that I have to say on the subject. It reads as follows: We appeal, as human beings to human beings: Remember your humanity, and forget the rest. Newyorki magyar hentes TIBOR* MEAT SPECIALTIES (formerly MERfL PORK STORE) 1508 Second Avenue, New York, N. Y. 10021 «. 78. és 79. utcák közt.—Telefon: RH: 4-8292 FRISS HUS, HURKA ÉS FELVÁGOTTAK LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT Let us learn Hungarian hooking for Lodgings Szobnkcresés ' ' iiUl 1 sec the room? Megnézhetem a szobát? Where is the bathroom? Hoi van a fürdőszoba? Has this room a private Van a szobához külön bath? fürdőszoba? :1"W much do you ask Mennyit kér ezért lor this room? a szobáért? Whitt’s the price for Mennyi a lakbér egy a week [month]? hétre [hónapra]? Does this include the use Benne van ebben of the sitting-room? a nappali szoba használata? Are there any extras? Van még, amit külön kell fizetni? Do you provide meals? Itt is étkezhetem? (Kaphatok kosztol is? Is there a telephone Van telefon a szobában' in the room? Is there a lift in the Van lift a házban? house? Can one reach the house Könnyen elérhető a h.r easily by bus [tram]? buszon [villamoson]* 1' Would you need meals? Kosztot is kér? Just bed and breakfast. Csak szobát és reggelit Well, I must think Még gondolkoznom kel it over. rajta. I PRESS DIGEST DearfeidenfReagan, L Your Economic program hasreaIly helped ourtaly. Now w my wife and I I lTa\ebeenNoff,wehaveryiuchmoretime I to spend with Ihe children. Tfianfcs I Si»d> n.a* JSP\ tfwrrMAVt/- OMN A4A£ wfyt . mka. kto b&iafrzi-devA. -fao*r • kJ&MJopwi&fíeJ unfit far

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