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Owing to pressure from Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) and other groups, laws and attitudes on intoxicated drivers have changed rapidly. The good news is that deaths of drunk drivers are down 32% since 1980, and deaths from cirrhosis of the liver, whose principal cause is heavy consumption of alcohol, declined steadily over the same period. The bad news is that vast ! numbers of Americans are still willing to drive drunk. Ralph Milstead, director of Arizona's department of public safety, estimates that one of every 100 drivers on the road on Saturday and Sunday nights is "absolutely blitzed...
There is no shortage of old wives' tales about the virtues of eating fish: it is "brain food," according to legend, and cod-liver oil is a cure for all that ails. The wives may have been onto something. Eating a little fish a day may indeed keep the doctor away, particularly the cardiologist. That is the implication of three new studies published in the New England Journal of Medicine...
...both in animals and humans suggests that such a diet may help relieve symptoms of arthritis and perhaps other inflammatory diseases. However, says Dr. K. Frank Austen of Harvard, it is too early to make any recommendations, and fish-oil experts sound a special note of caution on cod-liver oil, which can be toxic in high doses...
When Phyllis Weber learned earlier this year that a two-year-old child had died of brain disease in a San Francisco hospital, she immediately dialed a 24-hour alert number in Pittsburgh. The child's liver was still in good condition but would quickly deteriorate, and Weber, who is director of the Northern California Transplant Bank, had only a few hours to find someone who could use it. The voice she reached at the headquarters of the National Association of Transplant Coor- dinators (NATCO) wasted no time getting to the particulars...
Because of that short telephone conversation, Weber was able to locate a child in Minnesota who needed a liver-transplant operation. Even more remarkable, however, is the fact that the operator who took Weber's call was a machine. In fact, the NATCO alert line is run entirely by a computer that can both talk and listen...