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Inevitably, because blood is a whole pharmacopoeia in itself, the hematologists had a field day. Dr. Leon N. Sussman of Manhattan's Beth Israel Hospital pointed out that besides the familiar ABO and Rh factors noted on every serviceman's dog tag and blood donor's identity card, there are no fewer than 15 other "public"* factors widely distributed in human blood. By computing all the possible combinations of these, Dr. Sussman arrived at the startling figure of 57.6 million different kinds of people distinguishable by telltale proteins in their blood. Because there undoubtedly are still other...
...just in case, the Air Force had long since readied a ten-room suite (nursery, kitchen, two lounges and six bedrooms) at Otis. By the time Jackie arrived, 200 special guards had been posted around the 22,000-acre base. Three airmen with Jackie's blood type (A1 Rh positive) had been picked several weeks ago, and now stood by to give blood transfusions. At noon one gave two pints for Jackie. She had gone into surgery as soon as she arrived...
...usually cure it. But the most common cause is a tiny parasite, the protozoan Trichomonas vaginalis, against which medicine has had no effective defense. Of 50 or more remedies listed in doctors' reference books, all must be used locally. Flagyl (chemical name: metronidazole), synthesized by France's Rhône-Poulenc laboratories, is the first effective trichomonacide taken by mouth; it gets into the bloodstream and can track down the parasites in internal glands where some of them hide. For this reason, it is also the first useful drug for men, who often pick up the parasites from...
What to do? The first thing is to learn more about retardation's causes, said the President. So far, only about 25% of cases can be medically explained by mongolism, birth injury, infection in infancy, German measles early in gestation, the Rh factor, lead poisoning, or uncommon defects in the body's enzyme chemistry. Where no such factors can be detected, retardation is commonest, said Kennedy, in urban and rural slums, in places where women get little or no doctoring during pregnancy. And there is much retardation among these mothers' abnormally high proportion of premature babies. Children...
...uproar in Bonn last week sounded little like the usual well-oiled functioning of the Federal Republic of Germany. All the factions in Bonn seemed to want weary Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, 86, to cross the Rhine to his rose gardens in Rhöndorf, and stay there. At week's end der Alte at last agreed to do so-in about a year...