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...paralyzed lungs. Last week in Houston, a group of polio researchers was told of a machine that both breathes and coughs for its occupant. This "lung" operates by means of a gadget that permits it to explode a sudden spurt of air against the patient's chest. It has passed its first laboratory tests. To perfect his gadget, Columbia University Researcher Alvan L. Barach got $8,300 from the March of Dimes fund...
Operations to separate joined twins are rarely successful. A recent attempt, on Canadian Brenda and Beverley Townsend last May (TIME, May 22), ended in death for both babies when surgeons found that a portion of the heart of each extended into the chest cavity of her sister...
Undergraduates allocated $1,034 to the Community Chest during the Combined Charities Drive, while graduate students contributed $3,633. Faculty members subscribed $27,894, for an average of $26.72 per person. Sixty-one percent of the staff responded with $7,243, an average increase of about ten percent in individual contributions...
...Emerson's pull is best. "Those who now are indoctrinated with the Schaefer prone pressure method," wrote Dr. Ivy's associates, "can double the ventilating efficiency ... by lifting the hips 4 inches 12 times each minute, alternating with the push on the lower part of the chest...
...such cases, it is possible for surgeons to cut out most of the tubelike gullet, pull the stomach high into the chest cavity and connect it directly to the back of the throat. Such an operation, however, can take up to seven hours to perform. The chances of 75-year-old Grimes surviving it were slight. Sinai Staff Surgeon Edgar Frank Berman decided to try something else...