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...Geiger counter this too, is relatively easy. _ One of the most difficult problems facing cancer specialists and brain surgeons is the diagnosis and location of brain tumors. Now a team of doctors claims to have reached 95% accuracy in pinning down the tumor site with the aid of a dye tagged with iodine-131. Other doctors have not been able to get as good results so the search goes on. Boston's Dr. Abraham S. Freedberg is encouraged by the way radioactive rubidium (a rare trace element in the body) concentrates in the tumor more than in healthy brain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Atomic Medicine: THE GREAT SEARCH FOR CURES ON A NEW FRONTIER | 4/7/1952 | See Source »

Special Delivery. In Paris, Chemist Jean Hulot, suspecting his landlady of opening his mail, filled an envelope with rhodamine dye, mailed it to himself, caught the concierge redhanded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 10, 1952 | 3/10/1952 | See Source »

...past months the Office of Price Stabilization has fearlessly taken controls off such items as sphygmo-oscillometers, Eskimo handicraft, canned rattlesnake meat, Easter-egg dye, truffles, cat beds, wigs, shoehorns, comb cleaners and incense burners. Last week it broadened the vistas of free enterprise. It removed price ceilings on "clay targets used in artificial shooting" and on "non-edible foods," e.g., wax apples and bananas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Freed Banana | 2/11/1952 | See Source »

...Korea), was to see whether the patient had lost blood, and if so, how much. In some cases, even when the blood pressure was normal, there had been heavy blood loss. The actual volume of blood lost, say the doctors, should be computed (by a quick and simple dye method). Their motto: "If in doubt, transfuse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: What Is Shock? | 1/28/1952 | See Source »

...half a dozen new drugs on frostbite cases. At base hospitals, nutritionists are checking soldiers' diets to determine the effect of vitamin C in frostbite recovery. In still other experiments, radar waves are being beamed at frozen arms & legs to find out how deep the injury goes; fluorescent dyes are being injected around frostbitten skin to discover the exact extent of the freeze. Both the radar and dye tests should help a surgeon to decide whether amputation is necessary, and if so, how much must...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: At War with Frostbite | 12/31/1951 | See Source »

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