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> Cancer-killing chemicals, if they are to do any good, must catch the cancer cells at their most vulnerable moment -when they are reproducing. Since this is a continuous process, continuous infusion of anti-cancer drugs into arteries or veins is usually necessary, requiring a stay of days or weeks...
Cool Container. At 5:30 p.m. Callahan died. "When we were absolutely sure that life had left him," says Dr. Russell, "Mrs. Callahan signed the release." A phone message went to the Brigham even as the patrolman's lifeless body was wheeled into an operating room. There Drs. Nathan...
Conceived by Stanford's imaginative Professor of Pediatrics Dr. Norman Kretchmer and Dr. Sumner Yaffe, the new unit on the third floor of the Stanford Medical Center (whose ornate design by Architect Edward Stone leads townsfolk to call it the "Taj Mahal") is intended to win that kind of...
The idea that a woman should have a hysterectomy or have her ovarian tubes tied off after the third caesarean, say the D.C. doctors, is a fallacy dating back a quarter-century, when the incision for the delivery was made vertically through the upper part of the wall of the...
Surgeons made an incision in Powell's abdomen, brought out part of the colon, and cut it halfway through. "From then on," said Powell, "fecal matter went no farther than this opening in my abdomen, and emptied into a pouch attached around my middle."