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Homes and office buildings often contain high levels of substances which may increase the risk of lung disease, participants of the Second International Symposium on Indoor Air Pollution held in Amherst concluded last week...
Sexton added that the most controversial topic taken up at the conference was the relationship between gas cooking and respiratory health. Some studies have linked the presence of gas stoves in homes and reduced lung function in children. Nitrogen dioxide, one of the by-products of gas combustion, has long been thought the causative agent...
...left side of his chest, his neck, knee and thigh. A later medical bulletin would reveal that death occurred at 2:40 p.m., two hours after the attack began, and that it was due to "violent nervous shock and internal bleeding in the chest cavity, where the left lung and major blood vessels below it were torn." A doctor emerged from the operating room, his face streaked with tears, to break the news to Jehan Sadat. "Only God," he said, "is immortal." ? By William Drozdiak. Reported by Robert C Wurmstedt and Wilton Wynn /Cairo
DIED. Alton Ochsner, 85, internationally renowned surgeon, teacher and medical researcher who in 1936 suggested a link between cigarette smoking and lung cancer; after heart surgery; in New Orleans. An outspoken critic of American health habits, he co-founded the Ochsner Clinic in New Orleans in 1941 and served as its director of surgery for 24 years, training heart specialists like Michael DeBakey and attending such patients as Argentina's President Juan Peron, Golfer Ben Hogan and Actor Gary Cooper...
...three to seven months earlier in eight major classes of federal benefits: Social Security and veterans' benefits; military, civil service and railroad retirement pensions; supplemental security income for the blind and disabled; food stamps and other federally funded nutrition programs; payments to miners suffering from black-lung disease. The Government might save $4 billion to $5 billion next fiscal year, at the price of slicing into some programs that Reagan had earlier defined as part of an untouchable "social safety net." True enough, current formulas are widely believed to reward recipients of some of these benefits, especially Social Security...