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...move to a warm climate (on the theory that in cold temperatures tissues require a greater blood supply, which puts a strain on the heart). With better drug control, such moves are rarely advised now. Patients used to be subjected to surgery to remove part of the thyroid gland. This can now be done by simply swigging an "atomic cocktail" of radioactive iodine. Tobacco is no longer banned in all cases-"there is little point in forbidding a tense patient to smoke a little, if that serves to relax him." Also, "if one or two drinks a day serve...
...radio-cobalt devices for treating cancer. The consensus: in many types of cancer they are no better than old-fashioned X rays; in some cases they offer only slight improvement. But they can markedly increase the cure rate in cancers of the mouth, nasal sinuses, brain, esophagus, parotid gland...
...good shape, although not in prime competitive form. He swam in the National A.A.U. meet last April, and since then worked out three times a week. After an autopsy, the New Haven medical examiner listed the cause of death as acute pancreatitis, a severe inflammation of the enzyme-producing gland behind the stomach. But Yale University pathologists have undertaken a more detailed autopsy of their...
...Ripening Seed is drenched in a pagan delight with the moods, sights and fecundities of nature. If the novel has a drawback, it stems from what might be called Colette's gland-directed theory of personality, a tendency to reduce all thought to desire, all spirit to sensation. But rarely has the self-contained world of adolescence burst its pod under the touch of so loving yet unsentimental and sharp-eyed a gardener...
...their key men last week as 6,500 physiologists, biologists, pharmacologists, pathologists, nutritionists and immunologists swarmed into Atlantic City for meetings of their consortium, the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, to tell of advances in their fight to gain life-saving knowledge. Outstanding items: ¶ The pituitary gland, long given homage as producer of the "master" hormone ACTH,* is itself the slave of a truly imperial hormone secreted by a part of the brain, reported Baylor University's Physiologist Roger Guillemin. From the hypothalamus, an ancient part of the brain, Guillemin and Baylor colleagues have isolated...