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...good example of the interaction of research and clinical study is the work of Rawson's group and of Dr. L. D. Marinelli on the treatment of thyroid cancer with radioactive iodine. Since the thyroid gland eagerly absorbs iodine (which it uses to make a hormone), doctors have hoped that a cancerous thyroid would absorb radioactive iodine 131 in sufficient quantity to kill the unruly cells. Unfortunately, this effort was none too successful. The normal thyroid took up nearly all the iodine. The cancerous thyroid cells, particularly the metastases in distant parts of the body, took up so little...
Dread Decision. The patients in Memorial Hospital are never used as experimental animals. Neither are they denied any treatment, however new, that might possibly do them good. Virtually all patients beyond the help of surgery are willing to have new drugs and treatments tried on them...
...softest of the soft spots, there was some hardening; American Woolen Co. also raised prices on 14 of its woolen-type fabrics for women's wear. In short, some industries had already gone through their own private recession and were getting back to something like normal. Actually, a good deal of the buying slump had come because manufacturers were using up their inventories while waiting for prices to settle; once the inventories were gone there would be a new rush...
...Bank of America business. But Claire Hoffman never took a public part in her father's bank or her husband's business; she has spent much of her quiet life riding, playing golf (in the 90s) and helping the Y.W.C.A. Said brother L.M.: "She's a good businesswoman ... a hardheaded person, and she ought to be good on the board." Said Claire: "I'm terrified...
...Good Guinness. Because currency restrictions make U.S. hops hard to get, Arthur Guinness Son & Co., Ltd., famed Irish brewers ("Guinness is good for you"), bought a Long Island City plant, their first in the U.S. In it, Guinness, which has been importing U.S. hops, started brewing stout of "the same flavor and quality as brewed in Ireland" for the U.S. market...