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...reconsider the whole of accumulated medical experience. It has overthrown all existing theories." Neurologists outside Russia would not go as far as that. What the Landau case did, they conceded, was to undermine such arguments as the one propounded in last week's London medical journal Lancet, that doctors should not seek to prolong the lives of braindamaged patients in "irrevocable comas." By previously accepted standards, Landau had been in such a coma for months...
...result is that she tries to conceal her condition as long as possible. Nowa Viennese obstetrician advises expectant mothers who are lucky enough to have husbands that they can learn something about bearing children from the wayward members of their sex. Writing in London's Lancet, Dr. Albert W. Bauer claims that unmarried women usually have an easier time during pregnancy and in childbirth than those who are married...
...their research, the British researchers report in the Lancet, they generated musical tones of 500 cycles per second (about an octave above middle C) and 4,000 cycles and transmitted them 'through the abdominal wall of the mother-to-be with an instrument like a telephone receiver. It made no difference whether the mother could hear the tones or not (the investigators tried it both ways). In tests of 290 women, 215 unborn babies responded to the 500-c.p.s. tone with an accelerated heart rate, but only 60 reacted to the screeching tone three octaves higher...
With a drug so widely and often casually used, it is almost impossible to be sure whether a woman was taking thalidomide at the critical time. Last week in the Lancet, a canny Scottish doctor told how he had done it. In Stirlingshire...
...searched. He got his evidence: no fewer than eight of the ten mothers had been taking Distaval, and a ninth might have been. Distaval and thalidomide compounds were pulled off the British market in early December. But many women now pregnant may have been taking the drug, and the Lancet raises editorially an ominous question for doctors: whether to terminate pregnancy in such cases...