Capsules

P: Mass production of Dr. Jonas E. Salk's polio vaccine has been delayed by minor snags in manufacture, the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis announced. So the ambitious program of nationwide test inoculations (TIME, Nov. 23) will not get started until late March or early April.

P: For partly paralyzed victims of past polio epidemics, three orthopedic surgeons reported a promising technique. At Shriners' Hospital for Crippled Children in San Francisco, they transplanted muscle from the chest. Patients who could not bend their elbows can now lift weights; two who were unable to close their lower jaws, because of wasted muscles, now can chew hard food.

P: Each year strokes (accidents in the brain's arteries) handicap 1,800,000 U.S. victims and take 170,000 lives, but medical science is neglecting "this tremendous problem," concluded 35 specialists assembled by the American Heart Association. At their conference in Princeton, N.J., the specialists said, more questions were asked than answered.

P: After studying the amounts of blood, oxygen and sugar used by the brains of healthy and mentally ill patients, three University of California researchers sadly concluded: the same "brain food" that produces the insights of genius can also nourish the delusions of the schizophrenic.

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