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...discovered no blockages but pearly white nodules on the peritoneum, or abdominal sac. Tests and experimental treatments demonstrated that steroid drugs effectively combatted properly diagnosed starch peritonitis, and the lumps disappeared. The Lancet's editors urge doctors not merely to rinse off the starch substance, as that could worsen matters by clumping the starchy residues; they must wash the gloves off vigorously and then wipe them thoroughly with sterile towels before picking up their scalpels...
Healey was not just being irresponsible. Britain's currency-weakening inflation pace in April got up to an annual rate of 12%. When Britain enters the Common Market, it will have to worsen its financial position by reducing protective tariffs and contributing hundreds of millions of pounds annually to Common Market programs...
...would be easy to say that the latest wave of terrorism will worsen until it results in a political revolution somewhere," says Political Scientist Hassner. "That has often been the historical case. But, then, who could have predicted that suddenly there would be no more black riots in the U.S.? Political terror is an obscure phenomenon, whose eruption and recession are without immediate explanation." The new terrorism may fade in time, but European security chiefs have no choice but to take a more pessimistic view. Stockholm is building a new passenger terminal at Arlanda Airport, for instance, that will have...
...imposed stress. Graham has found that most cluster sufferers are similar in appearance, with prominent masculine features and reddened, grainy, deeply furrowed skin. Dilation of blood vessels is also apparently present in clusters. Therefore liquor or a dose of any drug that expands vessels, like nitroglycerin, can trigger or worsen an attack...
...drug efficacy since 1962 and has found that a number of preparations do not meet their manufacturers' claims. But the commission's remedy is dramatic. Its proposed order would prohibit any further misrepresentation and require disclosure in advertising of the presence of aspirin or caffeine, which could worsen the condition of some patients. Penance for past sins would be even stiffer. In a drastic application of the "truth-in-advertising" doctrine, the FTC wants drug companies to devote 25% of their advertising expenditures during the next two years to ads correcting the claims now under challenge...