Word: bladders
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...Foundation announced that it would no longer award the Eppinger Prize. "We founded the prize to encourage research, not to elicit political controversy," declared Dr. Herbert Falk, 60, head of the foundation and president of Dr. Falk GmbH, a firm specializing in drugs to treat disorders of the gall bladder and liver. "I will do anything to counter the impression that I am promoting a Nazi war criminal." Falk's firm decided to create a hepatology prize in the late '60s. Says Falk: "I asked professors I knew whom we should name it after, and all of them...
Weinberg has shown that only a minuscule amount of damage is needed to turn one of these normal genes into an agent of cancer. A gene from a normal human bladder cell contains about 6,000 chemical constituents or bases. The difference between this gene and one that produces bladder cancer involves only one of those 6,000 bases. Says Weinberg: "That very subtle change led to the creation of a tumor...
Competing laboratories are racing to identify the genes capable of inducing cancer in human cell cultures. About a dozen such genes have already been isolated from leukemic cells and from tumors of the lung, bladder, colon and breast. Many of these genes are nearly identical to oncogenes isolated years earlier from cancer viruses. Moreover, certain tumors (colon and lung carcinomas, for example) were found to contain the same oncogene. This suggests that perhaps several dozen genes are responsible for producing the 100 or more known forms of cancer...
HOSPITALIZED. Janet Gaynor, 73, winner of the first Oscar for Best Actress (1929), in serious condition with eleven broken ribs, a fractured collarbone, pelvic fractures, an injured bladder and a damaged kidney; and Mary Martin, 68, star of Broadway's original South Pacific and TV's first Peter Pan, in good condition with two fractured ribs, a fractured pelvis and a punctured lung; after a vehicular accident; in San Francisco. Gaynor and her husband Paul Gregory, 61, and Martin and her pressagent, Ben Washer, 76, were riding in a taxi when they were struck broadside...
...anxiety of women who notice unexpected secretions during orgasm. "In the years before I was aware of the G spot," he says, "I saw about one patient a year who came to me very anxious because she seemed to be urinating during orgasm. She usually thought she needed bladder repair, but the patient was urged not to worry; there was no dysfunction...