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Iodine Is Unique. So far, about the only evident cure that atomic medicine can claim is with radioactive iodine in severe cases of Graves's disease (overactivity of the thyroid gland). For these, it is as good as other drugs or surgery, and probably better. Until radioisotopes began to be made (in cyclotrons) in the '303, doctors were able to use only "external radiation"-X rays from an assortment of machines-or the closely related gamma rays given off by radium as it decays to lead. But the thyroid picks up any isotope of iodine in a greater...
...patients with chronic, congestive heart disease and angina pectoris. If, as is common in such cases, the healthy thyroid's activity is too high for a damaged heart, then a dose of iodine-131 can be used instead of the surgeon's knife to reduce the gland. Two-thirds of the heart cripples so treated at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital show worthwhile improvement, and half of these are so much better that they can lead nearly normal lives. Equally gratifying, the treatment releases many patients from the agonizing "tight" pains of angina...
Gold to Ease Pain. Ranking third among the isotopes used in the treatment of patients is radioactive gold. In a few U.S. medical centers, the gold is injected directly into the tumor mass in certain cases of cancer of the cervix or of the prostate gland. This work is still in its infancy; in the standard medical summary, "the results are encouraging but inconclusive." Far more widespread is the use of radiogold, with no thought of cure but _ simply to ease the pain and inconvenience of excess fluid formation in cancers of the chest or abdominal cavity...
Died. Dr. Serge Voronoff, 85, Russian-born surgeon and scientist, who became famous in the '20s as "the monkey-gland man," because of his operations for rejuvenation by the transplanting of testicles and thyroid glands; after a brief illness; at Lausanne, Switzerland...
...Talbot, now associate professor of Pediatrics at Mass. General, has been investigating hormones and other gland secretions, including ACTH, and their effect on body growth. He has also dealt with obesity and dwarfism in children...