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Quick treatment can easily save lives. Large amounts of a simple solution of sodium and potassium salts and sugar can rapidly replace the body's fluids. If patients are strong enough, they can drink the lifesaving mixture instead of receiving it intravenously. Antibiotics speed up the recovery time. Unfortunately, in Latin America, distributing medicines can be difficult, especially in remote areas...
According to Cambridge Water Superintendent John J. Cusack, Jr., one of the most important changes in the city's water process will result from a decision to switch from a purification system using liquid and gas chlorine to one using a chlorine compound called sodium hypochlorite...
...that these findings do not mean that all patients in this blood-pressure range should immediately start taking hypertension medication, but he did recommend life-style changes aimed at bringing the numbers down. Studies have shown that regular aerobic exercise as well as cutting back on saturated fats and sodium, among other measures, can reduce blood pressure. And, said Horan, if a patient is already at high risk for heart disease, % because of a weight problem or family history, for example, medication may be justified...
First benzene, then the feds nixed the "naturally sparkling" claim. Now, as the drink reappears, New York State finds some batches a mite too salty for a "low sodium" label. Talk about being blown out of the water...
...Meanwhile, oil shipments had been completely cut off. Though Lithuanian authorities immediately declared that each car could receive only 8 gal. of gas a month, the supply was not expected to last for more than two weeks. Lithuanians could also expect shortages of rubber for making cables and sneakers, sodium for soap powder and television screens, and sugar for candies and confections. Concluded Brazauskas: "We need new political decisions to get us out of our dead...