Word: drs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, Drs. Daniel Wallace, James Klinenberg and Dennis Goldfinger worked with twelve patients with severe rheumatoid arthritis, for whom medications, including gold and penicillamine, provided no relief. They removed either plasma (a process dubbed plasmapheresis) or the white blood cells called lymphocytes and plasma (lymphoplasmapheresis) in 20 sessions over eleven weeks...
Wertlieb and Drs. Sultan Mohiuddin, Bruce Nadler and Michael Mamakos toiled for six hours. They removed damaged tissue from both stump and leg (including nearly 5 in. of bone), inserted a 15-in. stainless steel rod into the thigh bone as a support, then reconnected an artery and two veins. Heartened by the surgery's initial success, an exultant Wertlieb said after the operation: "It was a New Year's Eve high without a drink...
Even while this new method is being developed to treat kidney disease, thousands of Americans may be unwittingly bringing it upon themselves. Writing in the New England Journal of Medicine, Drs. Thomas Murray and Martin Goldberg of Philadelphia's University of Pennsylvania Hospital report that as many as 5% of all instances of kidney failure in the U.S.-some 8,000 new cases a year-may be caused by common over-the-counter and prescription analgesics. The usual culprit: a mixture of aspirin and either phenacetin or acetaminophen, ingredients found in many well-known painkillers as well...
Last week Sweden's Karolinska Institute underlined the importance of restriction enzymes by awarding the Nobel Prize for Medicine, this year worth $165,000, to a trio of pioneers in the field. The three, all microbiologists: Werner Arber, of the University of Basel in Switzerland, and Drs. Hamilton O. Smith and Daniel Nathans, Americans, both of Johns Hopkins University...
Your writer detected irony in the fact that Drs. Steptoe and Edwards financed the research that culminated in the birth of the first test-tube baby by doing legal abortions. In fact, the two activities spring from the same basic belief: that parenthood should be a matter of choice...