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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Little strokes, a heart attack, cancer. Rumors of these illnesses-and worries about how they would affect his fitness for office-hovered around Franklin Delano Roosevelt as early as 1936. By 1944, when he was 62 and running for an unprecedented fourth term as President, the rumors had become persistent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Did Roosevelt Have Cancer? | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

Though no autopsy was performed (at Eleanor Roosevelt's request), there is little doubt that his death was caused by a massive cerebral hemorrhage. But speculation has continued about Roosevelt's health in the last years of his life; any serious illness could have affected his performance in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Did Roosevelt Have Cancer? | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

In a report published in the journal Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics, Dr. Harry Goldsmith, a surgeon at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Hanover, N.H., admits his theory is based on hearsay and circumstantial evidence. In 1963, while a resident at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan, he attended a lecture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Did Roosevelt Have Cancer? | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

Though both Lahey and Pack have since died, Goldsmith believes that there is some corroborating visual evidence in photographs of F.D.R. taken over the years. By about 1932, he says, a small pigmented lesion had appeared above Roosevelt's left eye. In following years it seems to have enlarged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Did Roosevelt Have Cancer? | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

The price is $40, but new parents may feel it is well worth it. For Rock-A-Bye-Bear is a Teddy bear that makes cranky infants drop right off to sleep. How? It is implanted with a device that plays the soothing sounds babies hear while still in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Womb Tune | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

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