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Little Pamela Lamphere (22 months) cleared the first hurdle in her obstacle race for a normal life. Because she was born with her bladder outside her body, her best chance for outliving early childhood was a dangerous series of three operations (TIME, Aug. 23). Last week the first was performed in Chicago's Cook County Hospital by Surgeon Harry A. Oberhelman. Said Dr. Oberhelman: "It went just fine-couldn't be better...
...dangerous operation might give the child a chance at normal life, but it might also kill her. Yet without the operation, she faced almost certain death within the next few years. Pamela Frances Lamphere, now 22 months old, had been born with her bladder outside her body. This rare malformation, called exstrophy, usually causes death (of urinary tract infection) before a child is five...
...medicine's unsolved mysteries was recently unraveled with the discovery that the malaria parasite hides for 10 days in the human: 1. Appendix. 2. Gall bladder. 3. Brain. 4. Pancreas. 5. Liver...
Died. Gennaro Cardinal Granito Pignatelli di Belmonte, 96, Dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals, second only to the Pope in the Roman Catholic hierarchy; of a bladder ailment; in Vatican City...
Since 1929, stubborn-jawed Dr. Claude Heman Barlow has been studying bilharziasis, a disease of the bladder caused by snail-borne parasites common in Egypt. In 1944, he infected himself with the parasites (TIME, Dec. 6, 1946). The experiment cost him his own health, but it gave science some valuable clues for controlling the disease. This week Dr. Barlow, 71, received the Medal of Merit from President Truman...