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There are sound reasons, say the doctors, for a slowdown in cutting the umbilical cord. Delay allows a gradual change from fetal to regular circulation without putting stress on blood vessels in the lungs and elsewhere in the body. The carefree manner in which the newly born infant is "disconnected" from his mother, concludes the report, "is in sharp contrast to the meticulous care with which the thoracic surgeon separates his patient from the heart-lung machine...
Once they have a clue to the cause of a disease, medical researchers often make steady progress in the search for a cure. But not in the case of lung cancer. Doctors have long been convinced that cigarette smoking is a major cause, Dr. Isidor S. Ravdin reminded a California seminar for science writers, but in the past decade the number of fatal cases of lung cancer has increased alarmingly. Death rates have shot up 73% in men and 18% in women. The death rates from other kinds of cancer have also increased-cancer of the kidney, 19% in males...
...proceeded to make life uncomfortable for Miami's race-track racketeers and expose the city's corrupt "termite administration'' in 1938 (for which the News won a Pulitzer Prize); of injuries suffered in the explosion of an anesthetic (cyclopropane) during an operation for lung cancer; in Manhattan...
...Eastern states, were down last week with something loosely described as flu. The U.S. Public Health Service, on guard against a new epidemic of the Asian flu, which first appeared in 1957, renewed its standard warning to groups of vulnerable people-pregnant women, patients who already have heart or lung disease, and the elderly-to get flu shots. Among children, much of the illness was of an old type, though one so recently distinguished from other diseases by medical scientists that it is not yet listed in the standard medical texts or dictionaries: parainfluenza. The same disease is also suspected...
...added that the University has just received a new supply of influenza vaccine, and recommended that persons over 45 and sufferers from chronic heart or lung trouble be especially sure to get flu shots...