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Despite its progress, North Viet Nam has not become a medical Utopia. Parasitic and infectious diseases, for instance, remain major problems. However, the visitors were told that some ailments have been brought under control. Cholera, trachoma, venereal disease and leprosy have become relatively rare. Polio, which still occurs in South Viet Nam, has been all but eliminated in the North. Even more impressive has been the decline in infant mortality. The infant death rate now stands at 26 per 1,000 births, a figure that seems high by Western standards but represents tremendous progress for the North Vietnamese. When...
...formulating fresh and sometimes dazzling solutions to the problems of Man on Earth, a nonprofit Design Science Institute has just been set up in Washington, D.C. It will be headed by Dr. Glenn A. Olds, president of Kent State University, with an advisory council including such notables as Polio Fighter Jonas E. Salk, and former U.N. Secretary-General U Thant. As for his latest solutions, the cryptic creator of the geodesic dome called for a new "world accounting system," democracy by "continual electronic referendum," and an "educational revolution" in which each child would program his own computer to answer such...
...picking patients is a delicate one. Says Dr. John Champlin, 32, CMRl's former screening officer: "It's quite difficult to explain why you can help someone who's missing half his face from noma, but can't help someone who's paralyzed by polio. The medical distinction just isn't that clear to the people...
...wide use because they are designed to control rare diseases. Most doctors have realized all along that flu and cold vaccines, which have been given to tens of millions of people, are of uncertain value. There is no challenge to vaccines used for combatting serious public health problems like polio, German measles (rubella) and measles...
...drink onstage by a pretty white waitress. "Oh, you're gorgeous, darlin'," he tells her, "but I don't want a white woman. No, I don't want a white woman. If I want a white woman, may the Lord strike me down with polio." Then his body goes out of joint, and he hobbles offstage. The records and a few "clean" appearances on TV eventually caught the eye of Las Vegas managers, and Foxx became a regular at the Hilton International...