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Radioisotopes are now commonly introduced into the body's various systems to allow doctors to trace functions and spot malfunctions with sensitive scanners. But radioactivity is the peril as well as the point of using the particles, reported Quinn, since too much of it during the testing can harm the patient. The ideal, therefore, is to find a radioactive substance with a short half-life that will decay quickly after passing on the information doctors need. The problem is that the unstable substances live so briefly they must be manufactured as short a time as possible before their...
...investigation, a Cuyahoga County, Ohio, grand jury dismissed Bailey's claim as having "no basis in truth or fact" and rebuked him for raising it. Though Bailey won a new trial for Sheppard by claiming prejudicial press coverage, the publicity in the Coppolino case clearly did not harm the defendant. Superior Court Judge Elvin Simmill, in fact, complimented reporters on their performance...
Undergraduate courses in Chemistry are to most students an unhappy compromise which satisfies neither concentrators for non-concentrators. The Chemistry Department has begun exploring curriculum changes to remedy the problem, but some of the proposals voiced may do more harm than good...
...moral. Now, Simons believes, a consensus is developing outside the church that permits abortions when a mother's life is in danger, birth control and even sterilization for parents whose family welfare would be threatened by another child, and suicide "where it is foreseen that otherwise great harm will be caused...
...temperatures would run high even if the spotlight weren't on. There is a lot of tradition at the Med School, and the report implies that a good deal of it does more harm than good. The report strikes hard at a once highly respected tradition -- departmental autonomy...