Word: bethesda
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...Bethesda Naval is the hospital of Presidents. Ronald Reagan went there last year to have a cancerous polyp removed from his colon. Richard Nixon was treated for viral pneumonia at the 500-bed facility in 1973. Lyndon Johnson had his gall bladder excised at the hospital in 1965 then proudly displayed his scar to anyone who cared to see it. Bethesda, in the northwest outskirts of Washington, D.C., is also a jewel in the crown of the U.S. military health care system, whose 688 facilities care for the nation's wounded in time of war. But presidential patronage notwithstanding...
...poison methods of rooting out tumors: surgery, radiation and chemotherapy. But slowly, in laboratories and medical centers around the world, a fourth approach has been evolving. The idea: rallying the body's own immunological forces to destroy malignant cells. Last week scientists at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Md., revealed some of the most promising results to date in the use of this new category called immunotherapy. In an unusual "special report," published in the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Steven Rosenberg and his NCI colleagues described a complex technique that enables doctors to turn some...
...French announcement and the resulting furor underscore the frenetic pace of AIDS research. At the NIH in Bethesda, Md., calls come in virtually every day from drug manufacturers claiming to have a new treatment for the disease. About half a dozen drugs are currently under serious study. Several, including ribavirin, suramin and one called compound S, have shown promise in blocking the replication of the AIDS virus. But few, if any, have demonstrated the potential to rebuild the devastated immune systems of AIDS patients...
...endless blathering later about the color of the President's skin, the timbre of his voice and what this word or that phrase meant compared with what he said someplace else. A little of that is worthy grist: e.g., Reagan's complexion. Three days later the President went to Bethesda Naval Hospital for his first checkup since his cancer operation in July, and the results made news. The doctors reported a "100% complete recovery" from the surgery...
...thing smaller financial institutions can do as effectively as the larger ones is create a frightening mess. Community Savings & Loan (assets: $443 million) of Bethesda, Md., demonstrated as much last week by getting into such a pinch for cash that it prompted Governor Harry Hughes to declare a 20- day ban on withdrawals from the thrift's 30,000 accounts. Community's , customers, who were still jittery after a statewide S and L crisis in May, had staged a run on their deposits after hearing about shakiness at the thrift's real estate subsidiary, Equity Programs Investment Corp...