Word: childrene
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fluent Prattle. The Brantford doctors sent the baby to the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. There, when Michael was 41 months old, Neurosurgeon Bruce Hendrick cut out the entire right half of his brain. Hendrick by now has done 17 such operations, or hemispherectomies. The youngest patient was 26 days old and weighed five pounds...
...gradually become more frequent and severe. In such cases the cause is brain damage, but not as the result of birth injury. The damage may be the result of infection or biochemical poisoning during gestation and may appear as scarring of the brain. Similar effects may arise when children of any age suffer head injuries...
...vaccine named HPV-77 by the virologists who developed it in the Federal Government's Division of Biologies Standards. This has already been tested on more than 20,000 persons and satisfies the three main requirements: 1) although it causes a mild rash in a few vaccinated children, it has no serious side effects; 2) it produces good antibody levels, and therefore immunity, in more than 90% of those vaccinated; 3) the weakened virus in the vaccine does not spread to people who come into contact with those who receive it. HPV-77 is also the only vaccine...
Although the purpose of vaccination against German, or "three-day," measles is to protect pregnant women for the sake of the unborn, the plan is not to vaccinate women.* Instead, public health officials hope to stamp out rubella by vaccinating children; thus, as they put it, "drying up the reservoir" of susceptible subjects who spread the infection. Some time in their lives, most adults have had a touch of rubella with no ill effects, and are now immune...
Oriental Playmates? Both Streeter and Assistant Prosecutor Ronald Flanigan argued that two-year-old Scott would be more comfortable living in the colored South Park section of Port Huron instead of in the Damaschkes' white neighborhood. "There's a noticeable difference in color between your other children in the home and Scott, is there not?" Flanigan asked Damaschke's wife Joy, belaboring the obvious. Does the boy have any Negro, Indian or Oriental playmates? asked the prosecutor. Judge Streeter had a question for the social worker who testified for the Damaschkes. "Can't you foresee...