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After four months of radioactive cobalt treatment in a Moscow hospital, Mexico's pudgy Communist Artist Diego Rivera, 69, bounded out with a paean to the "miracle cure" of his skin cancer. The Communists picked up the tab for all his expenses, so Rivera made a grateful bid (untaken) to his hosts: "I would consider it the climax of my career if the Soviet government asked me to paint something for them here!" The U.S.S.R. struck Diego Rivera as little short of paradise. Said he: "I am very happy to have been sick here...
Muscular dystrophy, a progressive wasting of muscle power for which neither cause nor cure is known, has a way of attacking families. George Anderson of Metuchen, N.J. watched his two teen-age brothers die from the disease. Confined to a wheelchair since the age of seven, George nevertheless determined not to let the disease destroy his life. He studied at home, last June got a diploma from the Metuchen high school. He became a TV and Brooklyn Dodger fan, took up water-coloring. George fought so hard to live that his parents and his three sisters (none of whom seem...
Quacks have always preyed on those who believe that banishing the malaise cures the malady. But to doctors nowadays, concerned with basic cause and cure, "mere relief of a symptom looks petty and the problem . . . seems a bore...
...says Dr. Walter Modell of Cornell in The Relief of Symptoms (W. B. Saunders Co.). The book's point: doctors must try not only to find a long-range cure but to give immediate relief. Otherwise, patients may be driven to the charlatan. Author Modell lists symptoms that should be treated at once, whether or not the basic trouble can be cured. Samples...
...Medical School student named Ann M. Michelson and a mouse named "Funny-foot" may have taken a giant step forward toward the cure for muscular dystrophy. Miss Michelson's research on "Funny-foot's" mutant genes resulted in a $50,000 grant for extensive exploration along the lines of heredity...