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...weeks pundits had been adjusting their political Geiger counters to pick up every psychological click from South Dakota's Republican primary. Those 14 delegates were important, everyone agreed, but the bigger prize was the effect on voters everywhere of victory in the last state primary...
...time. Now the University of California's Dr. John H. Lawrence, one of the first and most imaginative of the atomic medicine men, can do the job far faster with heavy-heavy water, the oxide of hydrogen3 or tritium.-The radiant atoms of tritium reveal themselves (to the Geiger or scintillation counter); from the dilution of tritium oxide, it is a simple matter to calculate the total amount of water in the body...
...system is really salt-starved (and hence, sodium-starved), the patient may die of kidney failure. With a tiny injection of radio-sodium, which mixes with the rest of the sodium in the body so that the dilution can be computed with the aid of a Geiger counter, doctors can tell when the danger point is approaching. Every day a dozen happy children banging around the playroom of the hospital at Long Island's Brookhaven Laboratory give testimony to the success of this technique...
...cells with phosphorus. Then there is the question of blood volume; a surgeon needs to know how much blood may have been lost by injury before he undertakes an amputation, and then how much is lost during the operation. With iodine-131 or phosphorus-32 and a 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...
...speech Monday, Geiger stated that the accrediting agencies in the Northeast and Middle Atlantic states will inquire about policies concerning regulations for admissions, rate of progress expected towards completion of requirements for degrees, class attendance, and eligibility for teams. Special courses for athletes and courses in coaching will also be a factor...