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P:Most of the motorized menaces on U.S. highways do not lack driving skill, but suffer from emotional disturbances, said New York University's Dr. Herbert J. Stack. He recommended psychological treatment for offenders who run through red lights because they hate their jobs or their mothers.

P:The American Red Cross called for blood donations on an all-out, wartime scale, beginning at once, so that gamma globulin (TIME, Nov. 3) can be processed in readiness for next year's polio epidemics. The goal: 5,000,000 pints P:Doctors of the Food & Drug Administration, spurred by last summer's scare about Chloromycetin, checked 539 cases of blood disorders, such as aplastic anemia, which might have been caused by drugs. In. 55, they found, Chloromycetin was used alone, and in 143 with other drugs, but in 341 cases other drugs or no drugs had been used. Their conclusion: doctors should watch more carefully for ill effects of all drugs. P:For his work in rehabilitating the physically handicapped at Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital and promoting rehabilitation programs across the U.S., Dr. Howard A. Rusk, 51, was named winner of the $10,000 Dr. C. C. Criss Award, given annually by an Omaha insurance firm. P:Every year there are about 28,000 fatal accidents in U.S. homes. Most dangerous places, says the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., are the bedroom, kitchen and stairs: "The much-maligned bathroom [is] a relatively unimportant factor." P:When Rancher Jack E. Johnson of Santa Rosa, N. Mex. took his wife Paula 20, to Santa Fe, doctors knew that she was doomed by acute yellow atrophy of the liver, doubted that they could save her unborn offspring. They tried anyway, and just before Mrs. Johnson died they delivered, by Caesarean section, three boys, each around 3 3/4 lbs. This week, the triplets were doing fine in incubators. P:More teeth are lost from pyorrhea than decay, Tuft's College Professor Irving Glickman told Greater New York dentists, and pyorrhea is essentially a disease not of the gums but of bone. Treatment, therefore, must cover the patient's calcium metabolism and hormone balance, not just his mouth.

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