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Birthmarks are twice as common on girls as on boys, two Albany (N.Y.) doctors report in GP, published by the American Academy of General Practice. As evidence that the birthmarks may be related to the female sex hormones, they note that the marks sometimes enlarge rapidly when a girl reaches puberty or during pregnancy.

P:Most diabetics can eat a "self-selected, unweighed and unmeasured diet" to suit their own tastes and appetites, even if a little sugar does appear in the urine, said Dr. Edward Tolstoi of Cornell University Medical School. His idea: daily insulin will control the disease, and a severe diet may impair the patient's metabolic processes instead of improving them. P:The mysterious poisons that appear in the bloodstream of severely burned patients and kill them several days after the original injury may not be so mysterious after all two Army medics told the Association of Military Surgeons. They have evidence that the poisons are simply the result of infection with bacteria that defy even massive doses of antibiotics.

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