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While scenes like this flame up, the play as a whole has the hazy look of a smudge fire. Lorraine Hansberry's intelligence is sharp, her writing can be distinctive, and she has X-ray vision when it comes to spotting the steel or the sponge in a character. But she needs to recover the dramatic directness and drive of her prizewinning first play, A Raisin...
...form made up of large molecules too big to pass through the lungs' blood filters, and laced with radioactive iodine. Dr. Taplin proved in dogs that these macro-molecules would jam up in the clot-closed arteries, stay there long enough to take their own picture on an X-ray plate, then break up into the normal, small-molecule form of albumin and pass into the bloodstream...
Equally important, unlike some of the more complex X-ray methods, ultrasound diagnosis is completely painless and does not require even a local anesthetic. The simpler machines used in many procedures are portable and can be taken to the patient's bedside or to the emergency room. The cost to the hospital is about the same as for X-ray machines, from $3,500 to $15,000, depending on purpose and complexity. Cost to the patient is about the same as for X rays...
...program in Nyasaland is aimed primarily at combatting tuberculosis. The volunteers will work in separate villages as medical assistants in a team with a doctor and two nurses, travelling periodically from village to village aboard a mobile X-ray unit...
...some 20 flown in from Belgian forces in West Germany to help, declared: "I am ashamed of being a doctor after seeing what is going on here." At week's end, two doctors and a technician were charged with the sabotage of a cable supplying electricity for the X-ray room at a Brussels clinic...