Word: journals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many deaths are being attributed to heart attacks on insufficient evidence, said the New England Journal of Medicine, because doctors find it convenient to enter coronary disease on death certificates. When 911 such certificates in Pennsylvania were checked, probable errors were found in at least 27% and perhaps as many as 63% of them...
...contrast with most specialists in disorders of the digestive tract, who prefer to hide behind polysyllables in writing of their work (e.g., the American Journal of Gastroenterology), the British Medical Association announced that it will soon publish a learned specialty journal entitled simply...
...college man himself, Newhouse chose Syracuse partly because his two sons went there (neither graduated), partly because he owns the city's two daily newspapers, Syracuse's morning Post-Standard (circ. 98,699) and evening Herald-Journal (circ. 130,000). Newhouse also believes that journalism schools are just as profitable as journalism, and his will be no small-change operation. The new center will be an eight-acre complex of facilities for training and research in the whole spectrum of communications: newspapers, magazines, TV, radio, audiovisual education, speech, literacy, public relations, scholarly publishing. Under Dean Wesley Clark...
...great artists (Wench: "What's troubling you, Will?" Shakespeare: "Oh, nothing, I'm just a little sicklied o'er ... I think I shall go home and write Hamlet"). But in this instance, the offhand remark is real; it was set down by James Boswell in his journal on March...
Reduction in the overall number of staph infections picked up by patients after they got to the hospital was slight, Dr. Barber concedes in the British Medical Journal, but in little more than a year two notable gains were chalked up: the severity of the infections declined, and the proportion of staph infections that could be knocked out with penicillin and tetracycline increased dramatically. In general, though no hard and fast conclusion could be drawn, resistance and virulence went together; the more vulnerable microbes, which became predominant as the study progressed, also caused less severe disease...