Word: cystic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grandmother of two little girls with cystic fibrosis thanks you for your Aug. 5 article on the disease...
...have not forgotten that TIME [March 1, 1954] was the first national magazine to describe cystic fibrosis-the "new" disease -to lay people. Your recent story is a very competent exposition of the latest advances made by research in this disease. On behalf of the Greater New York-Northern New Jersey Chapter of the National Cystic Fibrosis Research Foundation-our heartfelt thanks...
...human diseases, few produce more fantastic results than a cystic tumor of the ovary: as it fills with fluid, such a tumor may grow to monstrous proportions. The archives are inconclusive as to the biggest tumor ever recorded, but last week Dr. Dan H. Eames Jr. of La Marque, Texas achieved an unquestioned record of the size of a tumor removed intact...
Recessive Gene. After Dr. Andersen defined cystic fibrosis, doctors saw that previously they had been dismissing the lung symptoms as pneumonia, and confusing the intestinal upset with something else-celiac disease. Gradually, they learned that cystic fibrosis is by no means rare; by current estimates, one child in 600 is affected. It is inherited and may strike all the children in a susceptible family, or only one in ten, but the average is one in four...
...newborn, cystic fibrosis may reveal itself by the infant's inability to pass stools. Surgeons at Babies Hospital have devised a daring operation to open the intestine and flush it out with a trypsin solution. This technique is also being used in Boston under the guidance of Pediatrician Harry Shwachman, and in Los Angeles by Dr. Stephen Royce and his associates. It has prevented many deaths. After surgery, such a child will present the same problems as those whose symptoms develop a few months later in life...