Duke Hospital Medical Team Races Against Time and Death
Duke University Medical Center uses five television monitors and oscilloscopes in the cardiac intensive care unit to continuously watch heart activity. An alarm paging system summons staff instantly, allowing rapid intervention with defibrillation and medicine to stabilize patients suffering heart attacks.
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Duke Hospital Medical
Andrew Wallace
Wally
Dr. Wallace
Duke Cardiac
Wife's Welcoming Kiss Could Kill Astronaut
Los Angeles AP reports that a returning astronaut could be endangered by a lack of earthlike bacteria in space affecting his immune response. Dr. T. D. Luckey warns sterile air and diets may reduce bacteria in astronauts, suggesting bacteria pills before reentry.
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Los Angeles
Earth
T. D. Luckey
University of Missouri Medical School
American Society For Microbiology
State Salary Raises Approved in North Carolina
The State Personnel Board approved raises from 5 to 19 percent for about 5,000 NC state employees. Affected groups include Highway Commission engineers, mental hospital attendants, public health physicians and fiscal staff. Effective May 1, the total cost could reach $1.25 million per Caldwell.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
State Personnel Board
State Highway Commission
Claude E. Caldwell
Unscheduled 20 Mile Steam Train Trip Near Gurdaspur
A steam engine and three freight cars traveled 20 miles from Dinanagar station before the engineer and fireman abandoned the cab. The locomotive began rolling, stopping near Gurdaspur with exhausted steam.
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Gurdaspur
India
Dinanagar
Soviet Literary Figure Receives Suspended Sentence
Golanchuk, lecturer at the Gorki Institute of World Literature, was suspended for refusing to testify at the Sinyavsky Daniel trial. Sinyavsky and Daniel had been sentenced in February to seven and five years for smuggling anti Soviet writings abroad. Golanchuk admitted possession of copies but declined to reveal how he obtained them.
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Sinyavsky
Ted
Snakeroot and milkwort myths in quack nostrums
Snakeroot or milkwort was widely touted as a panacea in era nostrums. Quacks mixed it with snake oil and swamp water, selling broad cures.
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Rob Wood
Associated Press
Durham
Duke Medical
Luckey
Rev
Brannon
Calvary Church of
the Nazarene
Prospect St
High Point, N. C
George Brannon
Bethany, Oklahoma
Ralph H. Mattingly
Church ST
Harlees
Pink
Beige
Peacock
Home Center
Mary Carter Paint Store
Slit
Faberge
Paris
Woodhue
Tigress
China
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