Word: infantability
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...call "a natural increase." The U.S. recorded the largest number of births (3.7 million) since 1970 and the highest birth rate (16 per 1,000 people) since 1971. Deaths (2 million) dropped slightly below the 1981 level, possibly because there were no serious influenza outbreaks in 1982. The 1982 infant mortality rate (11.2 per 1,000 live births) was the lowest ever recorded in the nation. Infants are doing better, says NCHS Demographer Kate Prager, because of the "improvement in medical technology in caring for sick newborns...
...child's liver transplant. The Wethingtons of Wauconda, Ill. have a 10-month-old son. Brett, who was born with biliary artresia, a condition which prevents his liver from functioning properly. Last July, in one of his weekly radio addresses, President Reagan asked the country to aid a Texas infant suffering from the same disease. Reagan hoped to locate a liver for young Ashley Bailey. But a lack of transplantable organs is only one of the problems that faces the families of such children...
...ordered six Honeywell computers. The first one was delivered to his Rochester headquarters in the spring of 1978, but, says Selden, "it was two months late and dead on arrival." He spent two years trying to get the balky operating system of the computer to function while his infant firm ran up losses that totaled $1.2 million. Selden was forced to liquidate his business and sell the 200-year-old family farm to pay his debts. He is suing Honeywell for $6.4 million for "fraud, negligence and breach of contract." The trial began last week in federal district court...
...alternative to direct federal interference under the Baby Doe rule, the pediatricians, the A.H.A. and five other medical groups propose that all hospitals be required to create "infant bioethical review committees" to protect the rights of handicapped newborns. These committees, composed of medical experts, laymen, clergy and lawyers, would be consulted in any decision to forgo treatment...
...Peasants who now begin to prosper do not want just one baby; if the first baby is a girl, the matter is very serious indeed ? girls go off and get married. Thus, a situation that the Chinese themselves find appalling and the government denounces ? the killing of infant girls...