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Anyone who answers most of the above in the affirmative has what Drs. Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenman of San Francisco call Type A behavior. If he has not already had a heart attack, then he may be hurrying toward one. That, at least, is the conclusion of their book, Type A Behavior and Your Heart (Knopf; $7.95). Just published, the book not only helps people to determine if their behavior is hastening a heart attack but also offers some practical advice for those who want to avoid coronary complications...
...application. Thus use of the substance is restricted to certain medical centers that are still investigating its efficacy and safety. But those who have used chymopapain for slipped discs have uniformly reported good results. For example, at Massachusetts General Hospital, which recently opened a clinic to treat back problems, Drs. James Huddleston and Robert Boyd have injected chymopapain into 250 slipped-disc sufferers over the past 2% years. In three-fourths of the cases, they report, both the rupture and the pain were relieved...
Time of Need. Other doctors, too, are speaking out on the subject. Drs. Raymond Duff and A.G.M. Campbell reported in the New England Journal of Medicine on a study of 299 deaths among 2,171 children treated in the special-care nursery at Yale-New Haven Hospital over a 2½-year period. They found that 43 of the infants died after parents and doctors decided jointly to discontinue treatment. The other 256, who received the best treatment modern medicine could provide, fared no better; few lived longer than the infants who received no special care. Furthermore, their short existence...
...thousands of plant owners, from corporation chieftains with status-symbol Ficus executivus (vicepresidential fig) trees in their offices to the apartment dweller with a $30 Dracaena massangeana (dracaena). As a result, plant doctors (many with degrees in horticulture or agriculture) are as much in demand as pet vets. Drs. Greenthumbs charge an average $15 a housecall, $10 or so a day for plant sitting and as much as $50 to potty train a specimen needing more root space. Boston's Plant Parenthood even offers a vegetative version of Blue Cross-Blue Shield for green pets...
...headline seemed out of place in the usually staid Journal of the American Medical Association. It read: "The Pain in the Arse." The article that followed was not an editorial about an annoying individual or situation, but a report by Drs. Roy Swartout and Edward Compere of El Monte, Calif, about a real illness, ischiogluteal bursitis. The ailment results when friction causes inflammation of the bursae, or small, fluid-filled sacs, in places where tendons pass over the ischia, or hipbones. Many victims feel sharp, shooting pains in the legs and a relentless, dominating ache in one or both buttocks...