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P: Satisfied that the airplane and its attendent medical problems are here to stay, the A.M.A officially reconized aviation medicine as a separate specialty. New A.M specialists must satisfy the American Board of Preventive Medicine (which also certifies public health specialists) that will do "regular and frequent" flying.

P: For the wounded in Korea and for neighbors and kin, U.S. blood donors gave 4,186,000 pints in 1952--half as much again as in 1951, and the most since 1944--the American Red Cross announced. The 1953 goal, raised because of gamma globulin requirements for polio: 4,800,000 pints. Even so, there will be enough gamma globulin this year for only 1,000,000 children, out of 46 million in the most vunerable age groups, said the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis.

P: Most young women can have children safely even if they have heart trouble said the American Heart Association. A special pamphlet for them said that they are usually victims of rheumatic fever: they need not fear pregnancy unduly, provided they see a doctor early and often and take special care to avoid overfatigue, overweight, infection and tight clothing.

P: U.S. medical colleges, 1953 is "the crisis year," said Banker S. Sloan Colt head of the National Fund for Medical Education. If the schools can get enough private funds to cut down their deficits this year, they should be able to stave off federal subsidies. To help them, the fund in 1952 passed out $1,687,501 (about half from corporations, half from doctors), hopes to get labor, farmers and the general public to chip in soon.

P: How many casualties there were in Eniwetok's 1948 atom-bomb tests has never beea disclosed. But in St Louis ast week, Washington University's Dr. James Barrett Brown reported that exposure to both radiation and heat flash had caused severe burns. Untreated many radiation victims would have developed cancer However, at least 40 such cases have done well after surgery which includes replacing irradiated skin with grafts of healthy skin. They have needed no amputations and have gone back to work.

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