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...Joseph G. Tully and his National Institutes of Health colleagues in the New England Journal of Medicine, may be something as routine as a therapeutic abortion or surgical repair of a woman's genitalia after a difficult delivery. The surgery, they suspect-on the basis of a near-fatal case of PPLO blood poisoning-may help to spill PPLO into the bloodstream. British researchers have also incriminated PPLO in puerperal fevers and fevers following gynecologic surgery...
...undeveloped countries are inevitable, Morgenthau advised that the United States should attempt to sponsor the revolutions, rather than oppose them, in hopes of preventing them from becoming subservient to the U.S.S.R. or China. He further criticized the policy of military containment of Communism as eventually ineffective and perhaps ultimately fatal. Armed American repression would create "too much dread" and engender a world-wide anti-American coalition...
...have been brought against G.M. by victims-and dependents of victims-injured in accidents involving Corvairs built in the 1960-63 model years. Almost all claim that the car's rear axle (since redesigned) gave the Corvair an inherent instability and a tendency to oversteer, resulting sometimes in fatal accidents. G.M. won the first suit last month by convincing a California jury that a fatal accident involving a 1960 Corvair was caused by driver inexperience; but the jury's decision was not so much a vindication of the car as a condemnation of the driver. A second case...
...more that doctors learn about head injuries, the more concerned they are that not nearly enough is being done to protect accident victims from the long-lasting, possibly paralyzing or fatal effects of insidious brain damage. The main reason is that gross injuries to the brain often go undetected and even unsuspected...
...Swedish doctor was struck by the fact that many diving accidents, some fatal and others nearfatal, could not be explained by the more dramatic dangers to which medical investigators pay most attention. He queried hundreds of Swedish sport divers and found, that no less than one-fourth of them had had occasional episodes of vertigo, and a few had it practically every time they dived. Dizziness struck at any depth from six to 100 feet...