Word: asthma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...veteran English Shakespearean actor who last appeared in the U.S. with Katharine Cornell in Antony and Cleopatra (1947), and whose striking resemblance to the late F.D.R. brought him the role of the wartime President in MGM's 1947 A-bomb epic, The Beginning or the End; of cardiac asthma; in, London...
...they always got worse when mother was around. The trouble, he decided, was that the mother was unconsciously rejecting the child, and the youngster's anxiety caused changes in his physiological reactions. Eventually the children learned (albeit unconsciously) that they could get loving care by having an asthma attack...
...cases, by sending the child to the National Home for Jewish Children in Denver. The children were well while there. And while they were away, their mothers got some psychiatric help. Among 200 children who have been followed closely back at home after two years in Denver, no severe asthma attack has developed, and mild symptoms have been easily treated...
Nancy L. R. Bucher, instructor in Medicine, outlined the new use for cholesterol which may provide a clue to understanding heart disease and cancer. Lewis W. Hill, clinical associate in Pediatrics, announced that cortisone, a substance produced by the adrenal glands, is proving effective in the treatment of asthma and eczema among young children...
...cortisone experiments which Dr. Hall has been conducting show the new drug's ability to stop "wheezing" among asthma victims, especially young children, and to limit the spread of eczema on the face. It is also useful in treating severe cases of poison...