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...burn the Tashichhodzong and take over the country for themselves. The plotters had apparently hoped to use Bhutan as a springboard to take back neighboring Tibet from the Chinese. The schemers allegedly included the beauteous Tibetan mistress of the late King Jigme Dorji Wangchuk, who died of a heart ailment at age 44 in 1972. Other plots to take over the government at Thimphu, one of them led by the new King's maternal uncle, have been launched in recent years, but so far all have failed...
Most people will seek any excuse to avoid seeing their dentists. An article in the A.M.A. Journal now offers a new one: dentists may be hepatitis carriers. This risk was revealed when four Baltimore physicians began investigating the cause of a small epidemic of the of ten severe liver ailment. None of the twelve victims had had blood transfusions, a common source of the infection. Nor were any of them drug users who might have contracted the disease from contaminated needles. But all had one thing in common - the same dentist, a 28-year-old man who had recently returned...
...Boston doctors reported recently in the New England Journal of Medicine that malignant hyperthermia can be brought under control by use of a heart-lung machine to cool the blood. But the condition can also be avoided by presurgical testing. Researchers have identified the genetic defect that causes the ailment and have devised a means of identifying victims: exposing a small sample of a patient's muscle tissue to halothane or other anesthetic drugs. If the defect is present, the muscle contracts abnormally. In families with a his tory of malignant hyperthermia, the complex test is well worth...
CAMILLA CHRISTINE HALL. She is the daughter of a Lutheran minister. Her two sisters and a brother died at an early age when the family lived in St. Peter, Minn.; two of a congenital kidney disease, one of a heart ailment. At the University of Minnesota, she was active in the gay rights movement, majored in humanities and graduated...
...staid Journal of the American Medical Association. It read: "The Pain in the Arse." The article that followed was not an editorial about an annoying individual or situation, but a report by Drs. Roy Swartout and Edward Compere of El Monte, Calif, about a real illness, ischiogluteal bursitis. The ailment results when friction causes inflammation of the bursae, or small, fluid-filled sacs, in places where tendons pass over the ischia, or hipbones. Many victims feel sharp, shooting pains in the legs and a relentless, dominating ache in one or both buttocks. The doctors, who became interested in the condition...