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...both parents carry the abnormal gene, and it is proved by the birth of one child with cystic fibrosis, there is a one-in-four risk that any subsequent child will also be afflicted. Other diseases in the bad-risk group: some forms of mental retardation, deafness, muscular dystrophy and hemophilia-like bleeding disorders. The counselor's advice to parents with one child suffering from these has to be: if you want more children, adopt them...
...will try to take all the marbles in this hot Ivy League race against a tough, muscular Tiger squad which has been keying on this game as much...
...theory is that the muscular action of swallowing will automatically close Lopata's new pharyngeal valve; he will continue to inhale through the silver tube, but when he exhales, the air will go past the closed tube and activate the valve at the top of the windpipe. This will serve as a substitute voice box, and Dr. Montgomery is confident that Lopata's speech will be superior to a "burp...
Hemorrhoids are nothing but varicose veins in the anal region. They result from greatly increased pressure in the anal veins during the muscular contractions of defecation, when portions of a vein break through the skin or other tissues that normally confine them. Famed Harvard Surgeon Francis D. Moore (TIME cover, May 3, 1963) notes in the textbook Surgery: "In a sophisticated population, sensitive to their own complaints and careful of personal hygiene, one rarely sees the tremendously advanced hemorrhoids that are common in a more careless social stratum." But a woman is liable to develop hemorrhoids during pregnancy because...
...been traced to impacted wisdom teeth is virtually endless. At one time or another, New York University's Dr. Irving Salman told the Greater New York Dental Meeting last week, they have been accused of causing everything from facial deformity to infections, from cysts to neuralgia, nervous disorders, muscular twitching, melancholia, arthritis, impairment of vision-and even schizophrenia...