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Writing in last week's New England Journal of Medicine, William J. Curran, 52, professor of legal medicine at Harvard Medical School, and Ward Casscells, 28, a resident at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital, maintain that death by injection, however carried out, violates the Hippocratic oath, by which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Death Row | 2/4/1980 | See Source »

Top pedigreed cows, which sell for as much as $20,000, are injected with a hormone that causes multiple ovulation, the production of more than one egg. The eggs are then fertilized by artificial insemination and, about a week later, the live embryos-usually five, but sometimes ten or more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Supercows | 8/20/1979 | See Source »

After Robert had been mildly sedated and his leg anesthetized, Cardiologist Simon Stertzer inserted a narrow, hollow Teflon tube called a guiding catheter into an artery in the leg (although an arm artery can be used instead). Working the catheter up through the blood vessels, he reached the opening of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Blowup in the Arteries | 7/3/1978 | See Source »

For other patients, a variation of the new technique may make bypass surgery feasible. Explains Cardiac Surgeon Eugene Wallsh: "When you have too many obstructions in an artery, you can't bypass each one. But with the balloon catheter, you can open up some blocks and then bypass others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Blowup in the Arteries | 7/3/1978 | See Source »

How did Sister Godfrida's peccadilloes escape the attention of officials? Dr. De Corte, who instigated the investigation that uncovered the murders, suggested that there had been a conspiracy of silence about the nun. She had finally been suspended last August and dispatched to a Ghent hospital, where she...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Nun's Story | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

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