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...Driver had to come in early through a back door and were talking to some models from Filene's who were hired, to stand perfectly still, like mannequins, throughout the new wing to advertise the latest fashions. One woman was wearing the latest in sweatsuit technology, complete with gamma ray sunglasses. The rest were attired in the new "peasant look," which seemed suspiciously out of place...
Nuclear Scanning. Using this technique, doctors can examine the heart's pumping performance and check for evidence of obstruction in the coronary arteries. Radioactive isotopes with affinities for certain tissues are injected into the bloodstream. A special imaging device, called a scintillation camera, picks up the gamma rays emitted by the isotopes, and a computer translates the information into pictures. For example, by using thallium 201, an isotope that lodges in healthy heart muscle, doctors can tell if tissue has died as a result of a heart attack and whether blood is flowing freely through the coronary arteries...
...researchers at Massachusetts Public Health Biological Laboratories have found a way to screen out and concentrate chicken pox antibodies from the blood of healthy people. The procedure is similar to that used to extract gamma globulin for treatment of those exposed to rabies and hepatitis. Called VZIG, for Varicella-Zoster Immune Globulin, after the virus that causes chicken pox and shingles, the antiserum became available through the American Red Cross blood centers last week. The first supplies will go to vulnerable newborns and children with leukemia or weakened immune systems; a dosage provides immunity for about six weeks. But VZIG...
Another proven treatment of cancer.. other than surgery and chemotherapy, is radiography, or the shooting of highly active, invisible beams of energy--such as x-rays or gamma rays--to destroy cancerous cells...
...original price of $20. Oil and gas issues are also popular. Cheyenne Resources is up 738% since its February offering at $1 a share, and Saxon Oil has jumped to $35.75, an increase of 43%, just since Thanksgiving. Other winners are medical technology companies such as Genentech or Gamma Biologicals, which makes a serum for determining blood type. It closed last week at $15.12, up 163% from the offering price...