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Virtually every U.S. infant born under a doctor's care gets three shots, spaced a month apart, of a three-way vaccine against diphtheria, whooping cough and tetanus, or "lockjaw." Most children receive a booster shot a year later. Many get additional tetanus toxoid boosters in school or college...
Working in groups of up to twelve, the Rondónists gave medical help and teaching assistance, provided engineering expertise, formed cooperatives to make bricks and build roads. In 38 communities in the Jequitinhonha valley, the teams taught 52 hygiene courses, helped construct 300 septic tanks, pulled 30,000 teeth...
As a nation of organizers, the U.S. has harnessed its new scientific knowledge to all kinds of new technology: the production of electricity by nuclear energy, communication by satellite, the Salk vaccine, oral contraceptives and a whole new spectrum of antibiotics - to say nothing of learning how to put a...
Stillman has a very limited supply of flu vaccine. It is being administered to only high risk cases such as to those with a history of coronary disease. The vaccine decreases one's chances of suffering the flu's effects by 50 per cent, Farnsworth estimated.
For most people, the flu means a miserable few days in bed. To the elderly and those suffering from chronic heart or respiratory diseases, it can be a prelude to fatal complications. Last week some 213 deaths in the U.S. were at tributed to the disease and accompanying complications. To...