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About half of U.S. college students believe that whisky will "kill" a fever, and one-third think that an expectant mother can cultivate musical talent in her unborn child by listening to symphonies. One student in three believes that chiropractors are just as competent as physicians, and a smaller group thinks that fish is a "brain food." So says New York University's Dr. H. Frederick Kilander, author of the standard Kilander Health Knowledge Tests, who has been charting the progress of general health education in the U.S. since...
Even if the spread of nuclear weapons does not bring about a blundering or accidental catastrophe, reliance upon nuclear deterrence creates a moral climate that is plainly corrupting, for it inevitably tends to commit us and our opponents to policies which may condemn the unborn and the non-belligerents to extermination. By mutual provocation and propaganda, military personnel on both sides acquire the power to effect the moral climate of our time, to project their ethic on the whole of life as it has developed on earth...
...mothers had had German measles (rubella) in the first four months of pregnancy. Around the world, Gregg's findings were soon confirmed. Thus a common infection, almost invariably mild in children but which may be severe in adults, was convicted as a crippler and killer of the unborn...
...wrong?" In most cases, nothing. The one clear exception to the rule of maternal innocence is syphilis. Its spirochetes do not attack the fetus until relatively late in its development. If syphilis is diagnosed early in pregnancy, intensive treatment with penicillin can give the mother's unborn child almost sure protection...
Another unusual heart condition was reported last week. Among the anomalies that may develop in the unborn child is one where the veins which should lead oxygenated blood from the lungs to the left side of the heart are hooked up incorrectly and pump it back into the right side. Difficult to detect, the condition used to be untreatable, and usually caused death before age 20. Now, with the aid of heart-lung machines, it can be corrected. Writing in the A.M.A. Journal of a case at Manhattan's Roosevelt Hospital, Drs. Richard L. Golden and Charles A. Bertrand...