Word: paras
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Each year, by conservative estimate, at least 175,000 people in the U.S. die of strokes-accidents to the arteries in the brain. Among 1,800,000 survivors of strokes, a large number are severely para lyzed, and many drag out a hopeless existence, often requiring the care of three or four persons. Yet until recently, despite their frequency and severity, strokes have been neglected by medical researchers because it seemed that so little could be done for their victims. Last week Cornell University's Dr. Irving S. Wright reported the hopeful findings of a just-concluded conference...
Even if a "bourgeois" student survives his examination and proves socially acceptable (e.g., a member of the Free German Youth or the Para-Military Association for Sport and Technology), he still must make out on a 28% smaller monthly living allowance than a student from a farming or laboring family in the same general income bracket. (Living allowances are granted by the government to almost all students in institutions of higher education; tuition is free...
...chest) and 146 cases of minor surgery, they got by in 84 cases with no other anesthetic, and used only a local in 103. A main advantage of the method: it induces a light "sleep state," from which the patient arouses quickly. ¶Compounds of salicylic acid, para-aminobenzoic acid, tannic acid and their derivatives absorb the sun's skin-burning rays, said the University of Chicago's Dermatologist Stephen Rothman, and they can be used in anti-sunburn lotions. Also, they permit tanning without burning. As some South Pacific veterans will attest, antimalarial drugs such as Atabrine...
From Cook County Hospital, Dr. Daniel S. Kushner reported that a related germ, Mycobacterium fortuitum, can cause a disease like tuberculosis in mice. It is resistant to streptomycin and PAS (para-aminosalicylic acid) but it can be killed by isoniazid and also by the antibiotic tetracycline...
...From psychology, the study of the mind, and the Greek prefix para, meaning "beyond...