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Juniors enrolled in Economics tutorial--Ec 98--will take a written examination this May in the second half of an experiment to find the right testing method for the course. This winter Economics juniors became the first undergraduates to take oral examinations...
...treat many menstrual disorders: "habitual or threatened abortion," and to "establish conditions conducive to pregnancy" in many cases of infertility. All this is true. But the pills do more: used on a precise schedule, they prevent conception, without intolerable side effects, and, beginning this week, at moderate cost. "Oral contraception," says a doctor in the Journal of the American Medical Association, "has become an accomplished fact." As an accomplished fact, its potentials are vast. In the U.S., oral contraception could, for many people, supplant more awkward, older methods. In the world, the pill could eventually keep the population growth manageable...
...tests show that a patient's clotting time is not unduly prolonged, they say, the surgeon can go ahead, using special techniques to stanch bleeding and to su ture the wound tightly. Oral Surgeon Behrman had one case in which he removed nine teeth, plus a section of the gum, without undue bleeding. Surgeons in other fields have found that it is safer to keep a patient on anticoagulants even for such radical operations as amputating a limb, removing a lobe of a lung, or working inside the heart itself to free a hardened mitral valve. In most...
...which can be administered in candy form. His argument: nobody knows when it will be available, and the public, confused by talk of the two, may neglect to get the Salk shots. When Dr. John B. Johnson of the National (Negro) Medical Association contrasted the slow U.S. pace of oral vaccine development with Russia's high-speed drive,* Dr. Sabin snapped: "It requires leadership to get these things done. We simply need leadership." Dr. Robert N. Barr, representing state health officers, blew up: "That's a damned insult, Mr. Chairman! I object to that statement." But Sabin would...
...only play it safe. It recommended immediate, intensified efforts to get Salk shots into young children and young adults, the two most vulnerable age groups. Dr. Sabin won a grudging endorsement: "The PHS should continue to make every effort to encourage the early production and ready availability of an oral polio vaccine." Best estimates were that it would not be ready much before next winter-too late to take effect in the peak polio months...