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...American-Japanese investigatory team studied 20,000 Hiroshima-Nagasaki survivors, all of whom were under ten in 1945. The findings, reported in the British medical journal Lancet, define a "high-risk group" within the 20,000 as those who were exposed while in the open air one mile or less from the explosion's center. Cancer has been ten times more frequent in this group than among those who were inside shelters or situated farther from the explosion. Even among people exposed to a lesser degree of radiation, cancers of the thyroid, uterus and bone have developed in increasing...
...results of their experiments, as reported in the British medical publication the Lancet, are significant. When cold water (62° F.) was passed over the bleeding site, the flow was heavier and lasted longer. The result was similar when both the wound and the surrounding area were chilled by metal plates. But bleeding stopped quickly when the wound itself was left at room temperature and the area surrounding it was chilled...
Official interest was first quickened by an article last June in the London medical journal, the Lancet, which reported that an unusually large number of workers exposed to enzyme dust at P & G's detergent plant in Newcastle suffered from asthmatic symptoms and skin irritations. Some dermatologists agree that enzymes, which split the proteins of stains made by chocolate, blood, gravy and other materials the way the stomach decomposes food, might also break down the skin's fatty protective layer and cause inflammation, cracked skin and swelling. Though most specialists believe that more research is necessary before...
...until uterine contractions brought about a complete abortion. All but one of the women aborted within four to 27 hours, eight of them in twelve hours or less. Six had diarrhea or vomiting or both. None suffered severe bleeding. In a last-minute addendum to their report in the Lancet, Karim and Filshie say they have since used another prostaglandin, E2, and have aborted twelve women with no occurrence of diarrhea...
...Thomas Charles Dann, medical officer of the University College of Swansea in Wales. The usual, perfunctory five-second swabbing of the skin is far too brief for any of the antiseptics used to sterilize the area. As proof that this "routine rub is rubbish," Dann reports in the Lancet that more than 5,000 injections have been given in the past six years at the Swansea medical center without the preshot cleansing. No infections have developed...