Word: lungfuls
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...reason the lung does not function properly is simply that it has not yet matured. One remedy for RDS is to delay birth until the lungs mature, but this requires a prenatal test to determine the lungs' condition-something that doctors have always lacked...
...missing test has been devised by Dr. Louis Gluck, chief of the Division of Neonatology at the University of California in San Diego. Gluck studied the tiny air sacs that constitute the functioning surface of the lung, where the actual transfer of gases between the air and the blood occurs. When normal lungs exhale, the sacs are held open by fatty substances called lipids. But in RDS infants, Gluck found, these lipids are absent. Result: the victim breathes harder, the air sacs collapse, and soon the lungs stop functioning...
Died. Agustin Lara, 70, Mexico's foremost composer and lyricist; of heart and lung disease; in Mexico City. Because he could not write music, someone would stand by the piano as he played and jot down the scores of his tunes, including You Belong to My Heart, Granada and Madrid...
...example. Image: Daumier doctors (no, not Daumier) attend to the ailing Cardinal Mazarin. They assume grave countenances and huddle aside for a conference with Colbert, Mazarin's aid and confidant. Diagnosis: lung dropsy. Prescription: bleeding and the ingestion of rhubarb and precious stones. The opening sequences of Louis XIV possess all the touches of realism that we have come to expect of contemporary, slice-of-life realism, but it is a realism rendered bizarre by its historical setting. Realism reified, alienated. If the characters believe the witchcraft of the doctors, can we be sure at any moment that we know...
...Soviet medicine's problems are hardly confined to personnel. Bureaucracy has overstandardized treatment and inhibited research. Lab equipment, drugs and anesthetics are in short supply; heart-lung machines are scarce. Psychiatric care is well below American and European standards. Health Minister Petrovsky admits that the biggest problem facing the country's medical system is "improvement of the material and technological base." Until the problem is solved, Soviet medicine, though free and highly accessible, will remain abreast of the West in knowledge, but years behind in the ability...