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Zapol reports in today's New England Journal of Medicine that after inhaling nitric oxide, eight of ten chronic ARDS patients survived. He said he has not yet observed any side effects, if low doses of the fresh gas are administered properly within seconds of its formation...
Physicians agree that the greatest danger from passive smoking lies in the kind of chronic exposure that may occur during a 40-year marriage, and not in the occasional inhalation of cigarette fumes. Many doctors routinely advise parents of young children to quit, says Dr. William H. Coleman, incoming president of the American Academy of Family Physicians. "At the very least, they should not smoke inside the house and never in the car," he declares...
...healthy dose of gratuitous violence, and lashings and lashings of sexual misconduct. The original (anonymous) author was so out of control that the play ends with only three characters still standing. This production lowers the tally to zero, although the last living soul succumbs, somewhat improbably, to a chronic case of backache...
...YEARS AUDIENCES HAVE CRIED AT THE SIGHT OF the undersized lad bearing a single crutch who rides atop his father's shoulder. But Charles Dickens never revealed just what is wrong with Tiny Tim Cratchit, whose life is in chronic peril each Christmas. American pediatric neurologist Donald Lewis apparently couldn't take it anymore. After examining the literature, literally, on Tim, Dr. Lewis has come up with a professional diagnosis: distal renal tubular acidosis. According to A Christmas Carol, Tiny Tim lives to enjoy Christmases Yet to Come, thanks to a reformed Scrooge and his trio of conscience-raising phantoms...
...three countries are suffering a sharp drop in industrial production, as well as chronic shortages of gas and oil once provided cheaply and plentifully ! by Russia. In Lithuania and Latvia, the energy crisis has forced many to go without heat and hot water; in Lithuania, gasoline for private cars is strictly rationed. In Estonia, where the introduction of a new convertible currency has helped eliminate shortages of consumer goods, inflation has made all but the most basic items unaffordable for the average person...