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Misdiagnosis Likely. A New England research team, reports Microbiologist Edward S. Murray of the Harvard School of Public Health, has studied 13 recent cases, two of them fatal. Six were on Cape Cod, five on Martha's Vineyard and one on Nantucket. The out-of-area case involved a man in Gloucester, Mass., 100 miles from the Cape. That was puzzling because no infected ticks had been found there. The doctors questioned the man closely. No, he had not been to the Cape. In fact, he had not been anywhere except out on the marsh, duck hunting. With...
Although spotted fever may prove fatal if not treated promptly, it can almost always be cured with antibiotics (chloramphenicol or the tetracyclines) if diagnosed early enough. The trouble, say Murray and his colleagues in the New England Journal of Medicine, is that most doctors in the East are not alert to the danger. Unless they happen to spot the palms-and-soles rash, they are likely to misdiagnose the disease and treat it with sulfas or penicillin-both of which seem to make it worse. Lives can be saved, they say, if doctors will look for the distinctive signs, especially...
...know I'll never make love to you," Alvise taunts her, but Lea's passion is so great that her nephew seduces her into the ultimate game-Mercy Killing. She cleans and grooms him carefully, knots his tie and, as Alvise watches smilingly, injects him with a fatal dose of poison. As his body lies slumped in the wheelchair, Lea walks slowly up the stairs to her bedroom and sits in front of her dressing table, applying eye shadow...
...died of heart attacks, as compared with the diets of survivors of the same age, living on the same street, doing the same work, smoking as much and exercising as little, show no consistent difference. This means, to Furman, that the men who have heart attacks-in many cases, fatal-early in life are a metabolically distinct group. The trouble is that so far no one has found a quick test to determine who the susceptible men are, so that they might take special precautions...
...ethics between a cop and a crook is who has the badge." He concluded that "it is as though we delivered our children to someone who took them away for four or five hours every day in their formative years to watch police interrogations, gangsters beating enemies, spies performing fatal brain surgery, and demonstrations in how to kill and maim...