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...Salk's assistants had set up desks and chairs beside tables loaded with labeled test tubes, vaccine bottles and stacks of hypodermic needles ... Most children let out an "Oh!" or "Ow!" and marched off, self-consciously proud, to another room where a nurse watched their reactions. One of the commonest: "Why, I didn't even cry!" TIME, March...
...creeping harm it does happens without the patient's knowing it. People with malignant hypertension may experience such symptoms as headaches or coldness in the hands and feet, but they also may not. People with less severe hypertension may experience nothing at all until calamity strikes. One of the commonest of those pressure-related disasters is heart attack. The higher pressure climbs, the harder the heart has to pump to push the blood. Like any other muscle called on to do more work, the heart responds by enlarging, chiefly in the left ventricle, which is its main pumping chamber. Increased...
...came across something the other day that struck me: an essay by Joyce, on the subject of epiphanies. He defined them as moments when the “soul of the commonest object seems to us radiant.” And so I began to wonder when it last was that anything had shone at Harvard, radiantly...
...came across something the other day that struck me: an essay by Joyce, on the subject of epiphanies. He defined them as moments when the “soul of the commonest object seems to us radiant.” And so I began to wonder when it last was that anything had shone at Harvard, radiantly...
...STAPH It's still experimental, but scientists have developed the first vaccine against staph. The news comes none too soon: staph is one of the commonest--and deadliest--infections patients pick up in the hospital. In tests so far, the vaccine cut in half the incidence of staph among dialysis patients. Researchers hope that eventually all patients undergoing major surgery will be inoculated...