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...promising new method uses an "electronic screen intensifier" developed at Johns Hopkins by Dr. Russell H. Morgan and Ralph Sturm. Primarily intended for brightening the faint images on X-ray fluoroscope screens, it is based on the image-orthicon tube used in television cameras. The tube scans (in 1,029 "lines" instead of the standard 525) the image and turns it into fluctuations of an electric signal...
...faint shadows may be barely visible, but when they appear on the picture tube, they are bright enough to be studied in full daylight. This is important for doctors who examine patients by fluoroscope, and also important for the patients; doctors can now step down the power of X rays needed to get a good, clear picture...
...Then sign it. Right here at the bottom where the X is. Sign it and speak for it on the floor...
...thus face the unwelcome prospect of a double expense. Moreover, the student who is forced to undergo a serious operation may find himself in acute financial difficulties under the present system. While his University fee pays for such expenses as ward costs in downtown hospitals, laboratory fees, and X-rays, it does not cover another major medical item, the surgeon's fee. And the current program has worked a hardship on married students. For they must still pay the University medical fee, even though many join a regular health insurance plan in order to obtain coverage for their families...
...world met to seek uniform and simpler methods of reporting death. Their aim: a questionnaire with only 50 categories. Explained one expert: "We want to phrase our questionnaire so that chiefs of aboriginal tribes and village medicine men can understand it-so we can get answers like: 'X. died of a bellyache, Y was killed by a lion, and Mme. Z. passed away after childbirth...