Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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So far, the only long-term survivor with another man's lung but with his own heart has been Alois Vereecken, a Belgian metalworker who lived ten months after a 1968 transplant. Edward Falk quickly regained consciousness, his new lungs took up their work of oxygenation, and at week...
Vaccination against smallpox is almost 200 years old, yet it is still far from being an invariably safe procedure. Although production methods have become more sanitary, the vaccine itself has changed little since Edward Jenner scraped it from sores on the hand of a cowpox-infected dairymaid. It causes severe...
Routine vaccination has become an American fetish. There is no doubt that in its first 150 years vaccination was enormously effective in virtually eliminating smallpox from the developed countries of Europe and much of the Americas. But it is deceptively easy to assume that the current U.S. immunity to the...
First Year Worst. Nor is this cautious attitude limited to oldtimers. Dr. Samuel L. Katz, 42, Duke University's brilliant pediatrician who worked with Harvard's great virologist John F. Enders, is chairman of the American Academy of Pediatrics committee that is drawing up vaccination schedules for children...
Colorado's Kempe would go much farther. He would totally abolish routine vaccination of children, and of all stay-at-home Americans except those engaged in health services that might bring them into contact with an accidentally imported case of the disease. He would, however, continue to vaccinate young...