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Measles, the most common childhood disease in the United States, is dreaded especially because of its complications. Leaving victims highly susceptible to infections of any kind, it may lead to pneumonia, to tuberculosis or to encephalitis, a fatal disease of the brain and spinal column...
...negative patients who at some time in the past have had an infusion of Rh-positive blood. It contains an antibody called "anti-D," formed by natural body defenses doing battle with the invading Rh-positive factor. (Parker got his anti-D as a result of a 1947 spinal fusion when he was accidentally transfused with Rh-positive blood.) In the laboratory, technicians use the serum with anti-D to test blood specimens for Rh factor. If clumping occurs, technicians can be sure that the specimen is Rh positive...
...Wade concurred with Dr. Travell's diagnosis of an ordinary lumbosacral strain, unconnected with the President's old, nearly fatal spinal fusion. But back in New York, Wade parried a reporter's query with the words: "I don't want you to finish your question. I don't want to say a thing about it." All of which left it pretty much up to the U.S. to make its own judgments about the President's health-and the nation could hardly be happy about what it saw. A "cherry picker" elevator was used...
...Indeed, it could be dismissed as a passing pain were it not for John Kennedy's long history of back trouble. He first suffered what apparently was a ruptured disc between two lumbar vertebrae while playing football as a Harvard sophomore. Again, the disc was jammed against spinal nerves in 1943, when his PT boat was run down by a Japanese destroyer. Doctors operated on the disc in 1944, but the pain continued, and ten years later, while a member of the Senate, Kennedy took to crutches. In the fall of 1954, in a double fusion of spinal discs...
...cause of deep personal concern to the President's family. The Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation last year granted $10 million for medical research in mental retardation. John Kennedy's eldest sister, Rosemary, a childhood victim of spinal meningitis, is now a patient in a Wisconsin nursing home...