Whooping cough vaccine on trial again.
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Studies on Whooping Cough
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frequently be avoided if the subjects show the fixity of purpose described here; their determination to minimise the wind-chill factor (by digging a substantial snow cave) and to overcome the urge to sleep undoubtedly prevented a serious outcome for this party, which carried no specific equipment to spend a night out near the summit of Everest. CHARLES CLARKE Medical Officer, British Everest Ex...
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which Dr Coope and her colleagues based their statistics are not available and may, in fact, not differ markedly from the range of normal for their laboratory. For example, although they comment on raised levels of factor X, there is no significant difference in this parameter between their oestrogentreated and placebo groups. The thromboelastogram also showed no significant change. The clinica...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1987
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.295.6605.1053