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...especially difficult case that Shander oversaw at Englewood, 11-year-old Cristali Rodriguez came in with a rare pancreatic tumor, one of only 300 documented cases worldwide. Doctors in Philadelphia had declined to perform a Whipple procedure, a complex reconstruction of the digestive tract rarely performed on a child. Rodriguez's parents had refused a blood transfusion, and the girl's doctors felt that without it the operation was even more risky. Undeterred, Englewood surgeons did a 10-hour bloodless Whipple. There were no major complications, and a week later Cristali was eating pizza. Soon after her discharge...
NOTHING TO SNEEZE AT Doctors write as many as 12 million unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions yearly for colds, upper-respiratory-tract infections and bronchitis. The drugs do little or nothing to fight the viral illnesses...
...prize-winning novel, A Thousand Acres, resettling his mythical Britannic majesty and his fractious daughters on a modern Iowa farm. You also have to admire the nerve with which she attached pop-psych subtexts to her rearrangement, the daring with which she turned the whole works into a feminist tract...
INFECTION PREVENTION Preliminary research shows that an experimental vaccine--given in the form of a suppository--can reduce the frequency of urinary-tract infections in women...
Other early American Modernists, like Arthur Dove, explored this landscape mysticism too. This is not surprising, since one of the great influences on Dove, Hartley and others was the Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky, whose tract Concerning the Spiritual in Art was published...