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This was all very well for younger patients: penicillin and their own powers of recovery would usually pull them through. But Dr. Austrian studied 529 pneumonia patients at Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, and found that almost one-third of those over 50 died of their bloodstream infection. It seemed to have made no difference if they got penicillin...
...Michael DeBakey, a world-famed vascular surgeon at Houston's Methodist Hospital. During an extensive examination, Dr. DeBakey placed a stethoscope on the right side of Key's neck, heard a telltale sound. To confirm his suspicions, he had an opaque dye injected into Key's bloodstream and an X ray taken; the resulting picture showed constriction from a large atheroma in the right carotid arteries that supply Key's brain...
...which medicine has had no effective defense. Of 50 or more remedies listed in doctors' reference books, all must be used locally. Flagyl (chemical name: metronidazole), synthesized by France's Rhône-Poulenc laboratories, is the first effective trichomonacide taken by mouth; it gets into the bloodstream and can track down the parasites in internal glands where some of them hide. For this reason, it is also the first useful drug for men, who often pick up the parasites from their wives and may suffer urethritis or prostatitis...
...fatty plaque, so that a clot forms there and clogs an artery. About 85% of strokes are caused by arterial shutdowns; about 10% by hemorrhage (bleeding through a burst blood vessel in the brain, usually in victims of high blood pressure), and 5% by traveling clots in the bloodstream...
...four years in not-so-dark Africa and soon became convinced that the Establishment was to blame for his country's slow, erratic reactions to its new place in the postwar world. He set forth on a close, hardheaded examination of what he calls "the legs, arms, main bloodstream and metabolism" of the traditions and institutions that collectively control the life of Britain...