Word: infant
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Though ABC and NBC have also stepped up their coverage of offbeat stories, neither so far has matched Kuralt's diversity or unabashed do-goodness. In Holbrook, Mass., he told of a fund drive for the infant son of a Navy pilot who, by diverting his crippled jet away from a school and residential area, sacrificed his own life. In Westerville, Ohio, Kuralt interviewed John Franklin Smith, 87, who upon retiring as a teacher at Otterbein College stayed on as a janitor; the old man remarked that he was still "looking ahead" because there were so many "good books...
...transplantation: Houston's Dr. Michael E. DeBakey and Brooklyn's Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz. He also faced two expert interrogators: Newsman Martin Agronsky and Science Editor Earl Ubell. If anyone showed strain it was Dr. Kantrowitz - understandably, because his transplantation of a heart into a 19-day-old infant had failed after 61 hours. Dr. Barnard was lit up by the glow of a far greater success - the 18-day survival of Louis Washkansky's transplant...
Trouble in the Cities. A principal reason is poverty-and since poverty afflicts a disproportionate number of Negroes, the problem also involves race. Where money and medical care are available, infant mortality drops far below the national average, according to a county-by-county survey released this year by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare's Children's Bureau. Fiftysix, or less than 2% of all the counties studied, HEW pointed out, account for an unusually significant proportion of the nation's infant deaths. Included in the 56 are all but one of the U.S. cities...
Explaining the Gap. Chief among the direct causes of infant death are respiratory malfunction, low birth weight, premature birth, and congenital malformations of the circulatory, digestive and central nervous systems. Some of these factors are genetic, and irreversible. Thus there is a limit beyond which infant mortality cannot be reduced. Nonetheless, 320 U.S. counties have achieved a lower rate of 18.3 deaths per 1,000 births. Poor maternal health, malnutrition, inadequate sanitation and illegitimacy, predictably most prevalent in low-income communities, are also important factors. In Holland and Denmark, which have had a virtually uninterrupted decline in infant mortality since...
...help more U.S. infants survive, Congress has authorized $35 million for maternity and infant care in fiscal 1968. And HEW hopes to set up and train a corps of physicians' assistants to provide more thorough care to mothers and infants in low-income areas...