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...Jerome W. Conn to the New England Diabetes Association, is that there may be an immense and confusing area of overlap. As a result, Dr. Conn suggested, there may be more than 1,000,000 Americans who have been diagnosed as diabetics but are actually suffering from an adrenal-gland disorder requiring surgery...
...authorities on a form of high blood pressure that used to be dumped into the catchall category of "cause unknown." Not until the early 1960s was this form found to be caused by an excess of the potent hormone aldosterone (TIME, March 15, 1963), produced by the adrenal glands, which bestride the kidneys. If either gland develops a tumor, it is likely to churn out aldosterone too generously. The victim of this "primary aldosteronism" has too little potassium in his system and usually too much sodium, an imbalance that leaves him prey to intermittent paralysis, uremia-and high blood pressure...
...Britton, S. Dak. (6.7 p.p.m.) are cutting their natural levels down to about 1 p.p.m. A 150-lb. man who drinks 1-p.p.m. fluoridated water would have to drink a bathtubful, or 70 to 100 quarts daily, to get the minimum overdose that seems to affect the thyroid gland. The overdoses needed to damage kidney function or bones are still greater...
...Rowston, 20, is a lanky English lass who had been unhappy ever since adolescence, and with good reason. By some quirk of nature, her pituitary gland failed to shut down its output of growth hormone as she matured, and she kept on growing to a towering 6 ft. 7 in. "I used to feel as if I had two heads," says Ann. "The children were the worst to face. They'd shout 'Lanky!' and 'What's the weather like up there?' and that sort of thing. I wanted to hide in shame...
...PROSTATE. In aging men, disorders of the prostate gland, which surrounds the urethra, are likely to be a source of pain or the cause of death. The gland may hypertrophy (grow to excessive size) and squeeze the urethra shut by simple pressure, or it may become cancerous. At the Millard Fillmore and Veterans Administration hospitals in Buffalo, Dr. Ward Soanes and Dr. Maurice J. Gonder have devised special instruments and an ingenious technique. They give light anesthesia and introduce the cold cannula through the urethra. To make sure of the placement, the surgeon's finger can check the position...