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...pacemaker, a miniature machine that controls the heart rate by sending out regular electrical impulses, has meant new life for some 70,000 U.S. cardiac patients. But it has also meant a biennial trip to the hospital for surgery. Reason: the conventional pacemaker, implanted under the skin of the chest, must have its battery changed about every two years. For 16 cardiac patients last week, that recurrent surgery became a thing of the past. In operations performed at the Newark Beth Israel Medical Center and the National Heart and Lung Institute in Bethesda, Md., nuclear-powered pacemakers were installed...
Ominous. That goal has now assumed greater importance. Mothers with genital herpes can pass the virus on to their offspring, who may develop skin lesions and internal infections. The virus may also be responsible for more serious illness in the carriers themselves. Type II virus particles have been found to transform normal animal cells into cancerous ones in test tubes, and the discovery has raised speculation that the type II herpes may be linked to genital cancers in humans. "It's like finding a guy with a gun in a building where a murder has been committed," says Alvin...
...Hyperhydrosis-excessive sweat-iness-of the palms may not seem like a major medical problem, but those who suffer from a clammy grip can find the condition both annoying and embarrassing. Antiperspirants provide only temporary relief; radiation, which some physicians use to destroy sweat glands, may cause dangerous skin conditions. Now Dr. Donald Dohn of the Cleveland Clinic reports that a safe and effective remedy has been developed; patients with serious cases of hyperhydro-sis have been cured by surgery. The operation, called an upper thoracic sympathectomy, is performed by making an incision in the side of the neck...
...frequent side effect of heavy use is bleeding from the nose, a result of injury to nasal membranes. Snow can also cause hyperactivity and damage to the nervous system. Many long-term users have suffered psychotic symptoms, such as imagining insects crawling under their skin. Still, snorting cocaine is not as bad as injecting it into a vein; a mainlined overdose can literally freeze respiration and stop the heart-permanently. Considering these hazards, the king of drugs, as cocaine is often called, is something of a tyrant...
...School dean uncovered two studies in prominent medical publications in which a Texas research team had deprived infants of a fatty acid essential for growth and development. The team was aware that the deprivation of the nutrient could lead to irrevocable brain damage and would at least produce horrendous skin lesions. Black babies made up the overwhelming majority of the subjects used in those investigations...