Word: lungfuls
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...Government has refused to take an official stand on the relationship between smoking and lung cancer up to this time. The advice of the Public Health Service, which has long contended that smoking is a highly probable cause of lung cancer, prompted President Kennedy to sponsor the study...
...Charles Laughton, 63, jowly, stentorian actor, spending his third month in a Hollywood hospital suffering from what his doctors now announce is cancer of the lower spine; Eleanor Roosevelt, 77, whose annual week-long checkup at a Manhattan hospital was extended for treatment of an infectious lung condition; Edward R. Murrow, 54, chain-smoking chief of the U.S. Information Agency, in a U.S. Army hospital in Teheran, Iran, with a "mild" case of pneumonia; Otto E. Passman, 62. congressional foe of foreign aid. who tripped over some plastic clothing bags in his Washington office and broke his left...
...their fingertips and lips, suffer from a set of four inborn defects in the heart and arteries, known as Fallot's tetralogy. The effect is to recirculate much blood from which oxygen has been naturally removed in the veins, and send only part of it to the lungs for re-oxygenation. The Taussig-Blalock operation, devised years before open-heart surgery with a heart-lung machine became possible, is a compromise: it consists of purposely creating a fifth defect-a connection from the aorta to the pulmonary artery-to shunt more blood to the lungs and thus overcome some...
With the heart-lung machine, many surgeons favor a more radical and complex operation in which they repair the basic defects of the major arteries and the chambers of the heart itself. But a major problem still confronting the blue babies' doctors is to decide which operation is best suited for each patient, especially since the more drastic operation carries a higher risk. At the Hopkins, Dr. Blalock and his associates still decide to rely on the Taussig or a similar operation about once a week...
Born. To Maria del Carmen Franco y Polo, Marquesa de Villaverde, 36, raven-haired only child of Spain's Generalisimo Francisco Franco, and Dr. Cristobal Martinez Bordiu Ortega y Bascaran, tenth Marques de Villaverde, 40, heart and lung surgeon whose 17th century title puts him a notch below a grandee: their sixth child, fourth daughter...