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...years. Biochemist Choh Hao Li has devoted himself to discovering the functions of a small part of a small, lima-bean-sized gland that is lodged at the base of the human brain. With each experiment the Canton-born professor of biochemistry and endocrinology has come closer than any man before him to explaining how the front half of the human pituitary, the body's master gland, controls so many functions through the hormones it manufactures. Because his success represents a singular medical triumph, Dr. Li last week was awarded the $10,000 Albert Lasker Basic Research Award...
Reporting to the American Roentgen Ray Society, Dr. Ernest Kraft revealed that X rays of 1,000 patients arriving at the VA hospital in Northport, N.Y. revealed eleven tumors of the pituitary gland, which can upset the body's hormone balance so severely as to cause both physical and mental illness. In similar surveys, said Dr. Kraft, other radiologists detected tumors of the brain covering that had gone unsuspected during months or years of psychiatric treatment. The tumors can usually be removed surgically, with good chances of relieving the emotional disturbances of which they are the indirect cause...
...Spoleto. Feeling the approach of death, Cissy, played by Britain's Hermione Baddeley, is hurriedly assembling her coarse, maudlin, bawdy memoirs, and confiding them to a tape recorder. She yearns for a young and therapeutic companion. "There is nothing more stimulating than a lover to every nerve and gland and cell in the body," she says...
Extracts from animal glands (even some from the pituitary, such as ACTH) are easy to get and work well as replacement for many human hormones. Growth hormone is the exception for which the human body apparently insists on its own brand. (Monkeys' hormones would probably work, but the glands are too small.) Since HGH cannot yet be synthesized, the only source of supply is man. A few medical examiners seek authorization to remove the pea-sized pituitary at autopsies on both adults and stillborn babies. The tiny glands are sent to one of three university laboratories. There, after five...
Betty S. now gets five injections a week, and each day's shot contains the HGH from three human glands. Until new sources of supply are developed, there will never be enough HGH, even for the relatively small number of children who need it. Meanwhile, some doctors have suggested that pituitaries, like corneas, should be willed to a gland bank. Plans for such a bank are now under study at the National Institutes of Health...