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When the fungus goes no farther than the windpipe and lungs, it may touch off what seems like a bad cold. More severe cases are often mistaken for bronchitis and tuberculosis. But the deadliest form of the disease is inflammation of the brain covering. Cryptococcal meningitis was always fatal until the antifungal drug, amphotericin B, came into use six years ago. Now the death rate is down to about 30% of meningitis victims. But nobody knows exactly how many cases of CN lung disease there are because the vast majority are not diagnosed correctly. New York City records about...
Though most Congressmen expressed no objections to the deal, a vocal minority last week began lambasting it. "Why not sell the Russians our tobacco surplus?" said Idaho Democrat Ralph Harding. "They might contract lung cancer." In the Senate, Kentucky Republican John Sherman Cooper declared, "I dislike seeing the United States, great nation that it is, chasing off in a grubby manner after Russian gold." In Coronado, Calif., Goldwater reversed his field, charged that the wheat sale, coming on top of the proposed joint moon venture, is fresh proof that the Kennedys are running "a Soviet-American mutual aid society...
While making a speech in Philadelphia, Edward R. Murrow, 55, chain-smoking director of the U.S. Information Agency, grew hoarse and decided to check in at Washington Hospital Center on his return to the capital. Doctors found a tumor in his left lung, decided that location of the growth made it necessary to remove the entire lung...
Public & Private. In their wide-ranging surveys, the Chicago conferees reported on new tests for infectious mononucleosis, the beginning signs of cancer in the mouth, nickel workers' lung cancer, the hyaline membrane disease that killed President Kennedy's infant son two months ago, and a possible mechanism to explain how a violent reaction against a food protein may be the cause of mysterious infant deaths (TIME...
...China is sometimes brightened by exploits testifying to the ingenuity and dogged work of its citizens. Canada's Dr. Wilder Penfield, one of the world's top neurosurgeons, returned last week from Red China and told of a University of Shanghai medical team that built a heart-lung machine from scratch in 18 months. When they tested it with dogs, the animals died of air bubbles in the heart. The Chinese went back to work, guided only by articles in medical journals, and three years later came up with a far better machine which has now been used...