Word: infantability
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Medicine, dispensed by the proverbial Florence Nightingale across the river, is still a novelty--therefore to be avoided. Prescriptions are seldom followed and infant mortality is high. Several times a week, the familiar orange helicopter from the hospital at Blanc Sablon, the border town between Quebec and Labrador, lands on the riverbank to collect and deposit patients on the orders of the nurse. It is not unusual for parents to try to convince her that healthy babies are in fact sick, thereby placing the child in the hands of the hospital and reducing the burden of extra dependents until...
...Center" is an appropriate word to describe the 20-acre site. Like a shopping center, there are a number of parts to it. The library and the museum are in separate buildings. Eisenhower's boyhood home has been restored. The former president and his infant first born son are buried in the chapel-like Place of Meditation. In a focal arc, five large Memorial Pylons are dedicated to Eisenhower's parents, the six Eisenhower brothers, members of the armed services, democracy, and the home where the president spent his childhood. And still the Center grows; a large new visitors' reception...
...consolidating the infant-care resources of the three hospitals, Taeusch said he believes more effective medical service can be given at a lower cost. The three hospitals presently handle 15,000 births a year, and the new program will provide specialized infant care for 1,500 a year...
...Harvard Medical School and three Boston hospitals have established a joint program to centralize the infant care facilities of three area hospitals...
...year-old mother has already died of a thyroid cancer that doctors believe was caused by X-ray treatments administered when she was an infant. But for most, the damage has not been irreparable. Doctors have found thyroid abnormalities in 195 of the first thousand patients examined under the Wisconsin program, but a good many of these growths proved to be benign and were treated successfully. A New York State program that has traced patients since 1955 found only 19 cases of cancer when it studied 3,000 patients in 1963, well above what would normally be expected but considerably...