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...bothered for months with skin abscesses that would not heal despite treatment with the most powerful antibiotics. They were taken to Children's Memorial Hospital in Oklahoma City. There Dr. Riley and colleagues identified the cause of the girls' illness as a strain of Staphylococcus aureus (the commonest germ in wounds and boils) that resists the killing powers of penicillin and many other drugs. Fortunately, the strain was sensitive to the antibiotic vancomycin, and the girls were soon on the mend. But where had they picked up the infection...
...week a leading Tokyo psychiatrist drew attention to a still more chilling statistic: in the 15-to-24 age group, suicide is the leading cause of death. The rate for these teen-agers and young adults, said Dr. Tsunehisa Takeyama, is 54.8 per 100,000. Accidents are the next commonest cause of death, with a rate of 42.8, and tuberculosis third, at 21.3. No less than 34% of all Japan's 22,000 suicides a year are in this transitional age bracket; suicide drops to third-place killer (after TB and accidents) in the 25-to-34 decade...
Still puffing hard on the trail of whatever it is that makes heavy smokers the commonest victims of lung cancer, the pioneer researchers in the field have brought out another cold-comfort report: the tar from pipes and cigars is as potent a cancer-causing agent to mice as that from cigarettes. The investigators were Dr. Ernest L. Wynder of Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute and Adele B. Croninger of St. Louis' Washington University. As co-author they loyally listed their former chief, the late great Surgeon Evarts A. Graham, onetime chain smoker who died of inoperable lung...
...disease of the large bowel that kept Secretary John Foster Dulles bedfast in Walter Reed Army Hospital last week (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) was considered rare until the turn of the century. Since then, with X-ray techniques constantly improving, it has become clear that diverticulosis is one of the commonest disorders of the aging, though often it gives no trouble. But diverticulitis severe enough to send the victim to a hospital has become a routine diagnosis...
...patient could be kept walking around during major surgery, instead of lying still, he would have a better chance of surviving. Reason: the commonest cause of death after operations is pulmonary embolism-blockage in an artery leading from the heart to the lungs, by a blood clot formed elsewhere in the body. One of the commonest places for such a life-threatening clot to form: the legs, because the blood "pools" there during inactivity. Two Canadian surgeons now suggest an ingenious way of keeping the patient's leg muscles and veins working about as energetically as though he were...