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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
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...
...Syntex announced that a group of its chemists headed by Dr. George Rosenkranz had at last accomplished the feat, starting with diosgenin from cabeza de negro. They transformed it by 18 chemical steps to "Reichstein's Compound D,* which had been found in minute quantities in the adrenal gland, but had never been synthesized. Only three more steps were needed to turn this compound into cortisone...
...body's hormone system is out of kilter, says Dr. Means, the sound thing to do is simply to make up the deficiency-e.g., give thyroid hormone to a patient whose thyroid gland is not producing enough. But that is not what a doctor does, says Means, when he gives ACTHand cortisone in large doses...