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...what is technically called osteoporosis (porousness of bone) seems obvious: feed the patient more calcium-rich food. This does not work, however, because in these patients calcium is poorly absorbed from food. Now, a team of researchers headed by Dr. Frederic C. Bartter of the National Heart and Lung Institute in Bethesda, Md., has devised a promising treatment based upon adding calcium via the bloodstream...
...fact, some marginal coal mines will probably close down rather than comply with the strict standards set by the new Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act, which is aimed at stopping "black lung" disease among miners. There is also a shortage of cheap coal with a sufficiently low sulfur content to reduce air pollution. The cleanest fuel, natural gas, is so hard to come by that the Midwest's biggest buyer, Commonwealth Edison, has now begun to burn its winter stocks of coal to supply Chicago with power. Even domestic oil is getting more expensive, and there seems...
When the victim of a head-on crash is trundled into the emergency room, the first place that the doctors look for serious injury is the head. Then they examine the chest for a broken rib that may have pierced a lung, and finally they look at the limbs. The heart and the "great vessels" adjoining it are usually not examined until much later-if at all. Yet in many cases there is a potentially fatal injury to the aorta, which, if promptly detected, can be corrected by today's advanced surgery...
...operation. He was forced out of his first private practice because of local jealousies but managed to get scholarships when he needed them, including one to the University of Minnesota. There he studied for 21 years under Dr. Owen Wangensteen, who on Barnard's departure wangled a heart-lung machine for him. Barnard is liberal with his "if it were not for the generosity of," particularly to Wangensteen. On the other hand, a new lifesaving operation employing a tube inside the heart-thought up by Barnard during a dull sermon in church -was performed with some revisions two years...
...Terry Sawchuk, 40, New York Rangers' back-up goalie who during a 21-year career in the National Hockey League set a record of 103 regular-season shutouts and was considered by many to be the game's greatest goal tender; of a blood clot in the lung following injuries suffered in April during a brawl with Teammate Ron Stewart; in Manhattan...