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P:New York's Yeshiva University this week is dedicating its new $10 million Albert Einstein College of Medicine, the first medical college established in New York City in 57 years. It will eventually be the center of a $100 million, 200-acre medical center, which will include a $40 million municipal hospital constructed by the City of New York and a $45 million psychiatric hospital to be constructed by New York state.

P:Dr. Emma Sadler Moss, 57, of New Orleans' Charity Hospital, became the first woman in the U.S. to head a major professional medical society when she was installed as president of the American Society of Clinical Pathologists in Chicago. A nationally known expert in parasitology and the study of fungus diseases. Dr. Moss has a fascinating personal medical record. Born in Pearlington, Miss., she started life as a 3-lb. premature baby in a cotton-lined shoebox beside an open fireplace. Since then, she has overcome rabbit fever, acute gangrenous appendicitis, peritonitis, lobar pneumonia and mammary cancer.

P:At their annual convention in San Francisco, members of the California Academy of General Practice condemned the accident hazards built into the modern automobile. When a car hits a pedestrian, said the doctors, it is frequently the unnecessary adornments near the front of the car that maim and kill: "masticating grills, avulsive door handles, knife-edge eyebrows over headlights and spearlike hood ornaments." The doctors also called for the abolition of bumpers (including the bosom-like projections known as "Dagmars") and for recessed and padded dashboards, collapsible steering columns, safety belts, safety doors and a legal limit on horsepower.

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