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...others treated since 1972, only two have developed lung metastases...
Died. George Frazier, 63, acerbic, eccentric newspaper columnist; of lung cancer; in Cambridge, Mass. A self-styled Brahmin, Frazier was the Harvard-honed son of a fire inspector. After making his name as a jazz critic, ubiquitous freelance and LIFE writer, the widely read gadfly went on to ramble polysyllabically about style, taste and whatever else he fancied in his Boston Herald and, later, Boston Globe columns. Proud of his image as a professional snob-he proclaimed the common man an "ill-clad, ill-spoken hooligan"-Frazier brought his own hot dogs to baseball games and named among...
That is the gist of a report in the Archives of Internal Medicine by three researchers-Drs. Arthur Simon of Duke University and Manning Feinleib of the National Heart and Lung Institute and Sociologist Angelo Alonzo of DePauw University. They base their conclusion on a year-long study of admissions to a single hospital in a suburb of Washington, D.C. During that period, 382 patients were brought to the hospital after complaining of symptoms of acute coronary disease; 138 of them were dead on arrival. By interviewing the surviving patients as well as the families of those who died...
...small minority, anesthesia can trigger a rare hereditary disorder called malignant hyperthermia - a potentially lethal rise in body temperature. A group of Boston doctors reported recently in the New England Journal of Medicine that malignant hyperthermia can be brought under control by use of a heart-lung machine to cool the blood. But the condition can also be avoided by presurgical testing. Researchers have identified the genetic defect that causes the ailment and have devised a means of identifying victims: exposing a small sample of a patient's muscle tissue to halothane or other anesthetic drugs. If the defect...
...setting is an English coal-mining town. The three sons of Mr. and Mrs. Shaw are joining them to celebrate their 40th wedding anniversary. Mr. Shaw (Donald Ewer) has gone down into the coalpits for 49 years. He has a lung-dusty cough, a ready thirst and a powerful conviction that he has saved his boys from the red-brick slavery of a Midlands industrial warren...