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...status blind. The sport includes bankers and physicians, lawyers, grocery clerks, house painters, schoolteachers, coal miners and college students. Jock Covey, Henry Kissinger's ex-aide and now chief of the State Department's Israel desk, has 725 jumps. Wolfgang Halbig, 31, a University of Dusseldorf urologist, with 1,200 jumps, is one of 15 Germans here. "When you freefall, it doesn't matter whether you clean the road or you're a doctor," he says. "You just...
Advised by his physicians and encouraged by his friends, including Senator Edward Kennedy, who has been supporting an uphill fight to elect him Senate Democratic leader, Humphrey placed himself in the hands of Memorial's Whitmore. Leading the team of five doctors, Urologist Whitmore performed an extremely difficult operation that he had helped pioneer in the early 1950s with his old mentor, Dr. Victor Marshall of New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center...
...most adults, write Drs. Donald M. Vickery and James F. Fries in a health guide called Take Care of Yourself (Addison-Wesley; $9.95, hardcover; $5.95, paperback), "even the most elaborate checkups ... do not detect early and treatable diseases with any regularity." Dr. Russell Roth, a longtime Erie, Pa., urologist and former A.M.A. president, concurs. In 35 years of routine rectal examinations, he reports, he has discovered in only one patient an ailment that lent itself to treatment. Even if diseases could be easily detected in checkups, adds Dr. William Keith Morgan of West Virginia University's School of Medicine...
...California urologist has developed a procedure that could make vasectomy, or male sterilization, more easily reversible. Most surgeons perform the operation by removing a section of the vas deferens, the tubes that carry sperm. Some men later change their minds, but fertility frequently cannot be restored. Dr. Stanwood Schmidt of the University of California San Francisco Medical Center has a different approach. Removing no tissue and sealing the center of the severed vas by electric cauterization, he leaves the muscular wall of the tube intact. To reverse the procedure, Schmidt simply removes the scar tissue and rejoins the tube. Schmidt...
...fact that women develop unexplained infections of the urinary tract more often than men has long been observed but not understood. Now, Urologist Jack Lapides of the University of Michigan finds that the answer lies in toilet habits: most women urinate less frequently than men. The reasons, says Lapides, are social and cultural rather than physiological...