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...circulatory system and therefore an inadequate supply of oxygen to the tissues. This can result from heart attacks, clots in the lung, overwhelming, severe drug reaction, trauma or other causes. In Nixon's case, it was thought that he was suffering a serious loss of blood. Bleeding can occur in any operation when the patient has been treated with anticoagulant drugs and thus has dangerously reduced clotting factors in his blood. Before operating, most surgeons try to counteract the effects of the anticoagulants to restore the patient's clotting factors...
Surgery, Dr. John C. Lungren explained, creates "raw surfaces" along the the incision lines-points where postoperative bleeding can occur. They can contribute to what Lungren called a "generalized ooze" that does not gush blood and often cannot be detected until changes in pulse and blood pressure signal trouble...
...will straighten legs bowed by rickets; proper portions of essential proteins cannot undo the damage done to a growing child's brain by their absence. Brain cells require protein, and they need it from the very moment that life begins. At least 80% of all human brain growth occurs between conception and the age of two. This growth cannot take place in the fetus if the mother is malnourished, and it cannot be accomplished in the infant if he is starving. Nor will it happen later. In many cases, brain development that does not occur when it is supposed...
Since the coin heist last year, security precautions at the Fogg have been tightened and the old director, Daniel J. Robbins--whom many blamed for loose security that permitted the coin theft to occur--has retired...
...inefficient law enforcement is the glaring disparity between the percentage of black residents in Cambridge and the percentage of black patrolmen and supervisory officers in the police department. The addition of blacks to the force is sorely needed to eliminate the numerous misunderstandings and alleged racist abuses that occur between white patrolmen and non-white citizens. The fact that the police force now has only five permanent black patrolmen and no black supervisors is a disgrace...