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...Viruses & a Microbe. Since the commonest victims of acute respiratory disease-ARD in medical jargon-are children, the PHS's vaccine program will be tailored for them. The first vaccines will be made from ten viruses-respiratory syncytial virus (the most important), three types of parainfluenza virus, six of adenovirus-and one non-viral microbe, the "Eaton agent" (TIME, Nov. 10). Together, these microbes are estimated to cause 60% of ARD cases judged to be severe enough to send most children into hospitals...
...commonest sites for them is in the mucous lining of the nose, where Mrs. Ribicoff had them. Doctors have tried to help similar patients with cauteries and radium, but always unsuccessfully, and Mrs. Ribicoff refused these treatments. Then she heard of the new operation devised by Ohio State University's Dr. William Howerton Saunders...
Surgeons, who have been trying for a quarter-century to develop an effective treatment for the commonest form of heart attack-a coronary occlusion-learned in Chicago last week of a daring and original method devised by a young Harvard researcher. The method is to hook the patient to a pump that beats out-of-step with the heart's own beat, to create the most favorable conditions for the heart to develop substitute channels of circulation around the area of the occlusion (the shutdown in one of the heart wall's own arteries...
...variety of disease-causing microbes. Tried on a small number of British patients, it swiftly cleared up stubborn infections of the urinary tract, including some caused by the common colon bacteria, Escherichia coli. Test tube promise was not fulfilled in intestinal infections caused by one of the commonest forms of Salmonella; after a brief clearing, the microbes reappeared. More trials in many patients will be needed to show whether Penbritin can be useful against the several forms of Salmonella and Shigella that cause much dysentery and enteric fever, and, most importantly, against Salmonella typhosa, the microbe of typhoid fever...
Though he relied on the common speech of the commonest men-race-track touts, prizefighters, soldiers-Hemingway wrote brilliant dialogue that was highly stylized, just as an X ray is a highly stylized picture of the body. It revealed more than it ever laconically said. Though he never went to college, he picked his prose teachers well, starting with the King James Bible. His love of nature and the vernacular, together with a kind of barefoot male camaraderie, linked him fraternally with Mark Twain and Huckleberry Finn. Hemingway was the first of the '205 expatriates to knock on Gertrude...