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Mysterious Membrane. It is usually possible to tell within an hour after birth whether a preemie (or occasionally a full-term baby) is running into respiratory difficulties. His breathing gets faster and shallower; he may grunt on every exhalation or froth at the lips. In Patrick Kennedy's case, Pediatrician James Drorbaugh saw enough alarming signs to order him rushed, in an Isolette, to Children's Hospital Medical Center in Boston...
...current play, though, may be just right for the season. It's improbable whirl of froth is a pleasant diversion from the gloom of the impending exam period
When rivers in the U.S. and Europe began to billow with evil-looking foam and tap water frothed like lager beer, the blame was quickly pinned on the synthetic detergents in modern cleaning agents. They wash shirts gleaming white and they make dishes shine, but the bacteria that swarm in soil and sewage do not eat them with the same appetite they have for old-fashioned soap. Rejected by the bugs, the detergents sweep through sewage plants and seep out of septic tanks into the ground water. They are not poisonous, but who likes creamy froth on his drinking...
People have always tried to find ways to prevent birth, from the froth collected from the mouths of camels in ancient Egypt to the clumsy rubber devices for men that accounted for most contraceptive sales in the U.S. until the late 1930s. About that time Margaret Sanger started the trend toward contraceptives for women by convincing major companies that there was money to be made in jellies and diaphragms; in World War II, the men's side of the business profited mightily from Armed Services educational campaigns. Today the major emphasis is on a recent development that has made...
Just about every major drug company in the U.S. is working on some sort of birth control product. Some of the drugs being tested may make the first oral contraceptives-which must be taken 20 times a month at a total cost of $3 -seem as ancient as camel froth. Indianapolis' Eli Lilly & Co. is experimenting with pills that have to be taken only once a month, and Ortho is working hard on a vaccine. Emko, a subsidiary of St. Louis' Sunnen Products, has won the endorsement of the Planned Parenthood Federation for an aerosol foam preparation that...