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...cancer; in Garden City. N.Y. A major contributor to the study of amino-acid chemistry and kidney function. Van Slyke applied innovative analytical methods to both clinical and investigative medicine. He was known primarily for his work leading to the detection of acidosis (a condition often leading to diabetic coma) and his studies of kidney disease...
...Tories and that three out of every four Britons are dissatisfied with the government's inability to control rising prices. Given the profoundly anguished mood of many Britons today, the question may be: Will Heath's shock therapy cure the patient or send him into a coma...
...committee issued a report defining death as the point at which the brain stops functioning. A patient in irreversible coma could be considered dead under this definition, even though his heart and lungs were working fine...
Crities say the definition would make it easier for doctors to give dying patients, in need of transplants, vital organs from patients who are alive under current laws, by pronouncing them in an irreversible coma. After the organs have been removed, of course, the patients would cease breathing and heart action would stop...
...conglomerates it, like a Jay Gould, an Onassis, a Cornfeld of Conversation. Anyone who has spent a three-day weekend with Lenny in the country, by the shore, or captive on some lonesome cay in the Windward islands knows that feeling- the alternating spells of adrenal stimulation and insulin coma as the Great Interrupter, the Village Explainer, the champion of Mental Jotto, the Free Analyst, Mr. Let's Find Out, leads the troops on 2 seventy-two-hour forced march through the lateral geniculate and the pyramids of Betz, no breathers allowed, until every human brain is reduced finally...