1986

The Doctor's World: The Safest Blood - One's Own
The New York Times - Tuesday, December 2, 1986
Lawrence K. Altman, M.D.
When Loretta Norrell s doctor recommended back surgery, he told her to donate blood ahead of time so that if she needed a transfusion she would get the safest kind -her own. In her hometown of Little Rock, Ark., Mrs. Norrell gave two units of blood that were shipped to New York to remain in the operating room during he


Board May Remove Book on Youth Sex
The New York Times - Tuesday, December 2, 1986
A Board of Education spokesman said yesterday that a book that stated there were no special medical dangers in anal intercourse would be referred to the curriculum division for possible removal from a reading list for students. That passage and others in the book were brought to the attention of the board yesterday in



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