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...According to Goldman's 20-year study, 60% of all warts are spread between family members; others are contracted in locker rooms, swimming pools and washrooms. He urges people with warts to cover them in order to prevent contagion. Neither Goldman nor his colleagues have found a satisfactory cure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Warts and All | 1/4/1971 | See Source »

...during a full moon. Some sufferers insist that they have found relief in Tom Sawyer's prescription for "spunk water" (rain from a tree stump in the woods). Still others have employed the services of some old women in the hills of northeastern Kentucky who are said to cure warts merely by touching them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Warts and All | 1/4/1971 | See Source »

...crowd out the vital red blood cells. The cause of this lethal rampage is not yet clear, but what may be a crucial clue has just been reported in Nature by Dr. Robert C. Gallo of the National Cancer Institute. His findings could point the way to a leukemia cure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Finding a Cancer Clue | 12/21/1970 | See Source »

...that has also been done by Spiegelman's team−the scientists may have discovered an important diagnostic tool. Testing for the presence of the enzyme may now help doctors to identify leukemia in its earliest stages. And early identification is almost always the first step toward a cure. If the enzyme is proved to be at the heart of the process resulting in leukemia, it should be possible to find chemicals that suppress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Finding a Cancer Clue | 12/21/1970 | See Source »

Medicine still has no cure for this inherited illness. But a team of Michigan medical researchers has just announced a discovery that offers new relief for sickle-cell sufferers. By treating the patient with a solution of urea and invert sugar, say the researchers, the sickling tendency can be reversed and the misshapen cells returned to normal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Discriminating Disease | 12/21/1970 | See Source »

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