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Atomic Light. A radioactive flashlight is being sold by Boston's New England Nuclear Corp. The small metal cylinder (about i in. in diameter, 1½ in. long) has a plastic lens at one end, contains a long-lasting tritium "battery" produced at Oak Ridge. It will take twelve years for 'the light to dimmish 50%. Though its radioactivity is low, only persons licensed by the AEC can buy it, but the maker estimates that when the instrument is made available to the public the price will be about...
...durable. It must be inert, so as not to corrode or cause reactions in the blood. While Holter worked, surgeons operated again, put in a temporary tube in the hope of keeping his son alive until Holter could find his material. Finally Holter hit upon silicone plastic fins in a stainless steel body, and a plastic-molding company made up several sample valves...
...accident in the heart is extremely rare. Heretofore, it has nearly always proved fatal. Surgeons considered two operations for stitching up the ruptured valve, decided against them as offering no real hope of success. Then a visiting Swede. Dr. Hans Erik Hanson, suggested plugging the tunnel with a plastic sponge shaped like a long-stemmed golf tee. That was in June...
Water in the Bag. At 8:45 a.m. on Aug. 1, attendants wheeled Hickey into an operating room at NIH. The anesthesiologists knocked him out with sodium pentothal, then put him in a double-jacketed plastic bag up to his neck. Through the bag they circulated ice water. When Hickey was chilled enough so that circulation could be almost stopped without fear of damage to his brain, the surgeons opened both his aorta and his heart. Through a slit in the aorta they slipped the stem of the tee-shaped gadget, then worked this down into the heart wall until...
...Hungarian plastic surgeon, troubled by the fact that many confessors tell their female penitents that face lifting and similar plastic surgery is wrong, appealed to Jesuit Father Virginio Rotondi for a ruling. Rotondi, a priest reputed to enjoy the Pope's special confidence (he divulged the Pope's vision of Christ two years ago), replied that plastic surgery is good or evil, or neither, according to the purpose for which it is performed. The surgeon himself is usually justified. His unobjectionable purpose is to earn a living and remedy ugliness. And the patient-unless his motive is actually...