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Triple Ambition. In the Mexico of 1920, heart disease was as merciless a killer as elsewhere-perhaps worse, because the country had one of the world's highest rates of rheumatic fever.* Young Dr. Chávez wangled scholarships so that he could study the heart in Paris. Vienna and Brussels. Back home, he started a cardiology service in Mexico City's- General Hospital and gathered around him a group of equally dedicated physicians. In the early '30s, they got the idea for "an institute that would be at once a modern hospital for heart patients...
TIME'S March review of Crocodile Fever mentions Bryan Dempster as having disappeared and rumored to be "somewhere on [Africa's] Lake Nyasa." I think possibly I am the white hunter to whom you refer, as I have been hunting crocodiles on Lake Nyasa for the past five years. If Dempster had turned up on the lake, I would soon have heard, as news travels fast in the bush...
...Among the common noncancerous conditions that also cause a Penn test to show up positive are active rheumatoid arthritis, tuberculosis, cirrhosis of the liver, fever, pregnancy and hormone treatments...
Tricky Water. Cincinnati has been a center for U.S. public-health studies since 1913, when health engineers settled in an old downtown mansion to study Ohio River pollution. Water-borne typhoid fever, raging in the Ohio Valley in those days, was their chief concern. Nowadays, the typhoid bacillus is "literally no longer a problem" to Dr. Leslie A. Chambers, research director of the center. His staff must now tackle the far more complex problems of contamination of both water and food by viruses and fungi, synthetic chemicals and radioactivity...
...After finding a seemingly new disease among their Washington patients, Drs. Worth B. Daniels and Frank G. MacMurray report in the A.M.A. Journal that they have traced a total of 160 cases of cat-scratch fever. Just what causes the disorder after even a mild scratch by a playful pet is unknown, but common symptoms are chills, headache, nausea and bellyache, while in some cases the lymph glands become as big as golf balls for as long as two years...