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HEAVY-METAL POISONING. Once considered largely a problem of the urban slums, where children eat paint flaking off the walls of old buildings, lead poisoning is turning up more frequently in other areas. High levels of lead in the bloodstream have been found in children living near lead smelters in rural...
...prevent the bends, the formation of nitrogen bubbles in the bloodstream, which occurs when deep-sea divers ascend too rapidly...
Black administrators usually hold positions with titles like assistant dean or associate director, offices that they say lack real authority. The jobs have often been tacked on to the existing power structure, and many blacks say that they are not part of the University's bloodstream...
...spent twelve days in Memorial in late September and early October for treatment of phlebitis, the painful inflammation of the veins in his left leg that has bothered him off and on since 1964. It could at any time cause a fatal blood clot to travel upward in the bloodstream through his heart to the lungs...
...Middle East last June and, more severely, during his five-day stay at the Annenberg estate in Palm Springs early in September. At some point, Nixon's physicians say, a part of that clot, or possibly a new one, broke loose. The embolus was carried away in the bloodstream, like debris in a fast-flowing river, through the iliac vein and the inferior vena cava into the heart (see diagram...