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...instrument has only been tried on animals, Dr. Gamble said. None of them have been harmed, but he will continue testing. "I have to have a system that will do more good than harm to patients before I try it on them. I have to have a system that really works," he said...
Among almost a dozen chemicals which have a selective damaging effect on cancer cells, L-asparaginase is unique in one respect: its action is so much more selective that it appears to do no harm whatever to normal cells. Since L-asparaginase was erroneously reported to have cured a case of childhood leukemia (TIME, April 14; July 7), researchers have been trying to answer three main questions: 1) Against what types of cancer is it effective?; 2) Will a laboratory test show in advance whether a particular patient's disease will respond?; and 3) Even though L-Asparaginase spares...
...average fellow who occasionally complains "I've got gas on my stomach" may indeed be uncomfortable be cause gas is distending some part of his digestive tract. If he chews a few antacid tablets, he most likely will do himself no good, but neither will he do any harm. To guard against recurrences, he should avoid eating pulse vegetables such as navy or lima beans (as every high-altitude flyer and astronaut knows) and roughage foods such as cabbage, Brussels sprouts and celery. These two classes of foods, by different biochemical mechanisms, promote the formation...
...then, I ask, why the poster? He laughs. "The police captain came here himself, and ordered me to put it up. Well, it does no harm, we all know how we feel. But then he asked me to take down the pictures of the politicians. Look here, I said, I did you a favor, putting up that poster, now scram. These pictures are not coming down, as long as I am alive. He left--up here they respect up old fighters. Elsewhere I would have been arrested, I guess...
...being given the award on the strength of Harvard's record of eight wins and one loss. The lone setback did not harm his chances for the honor, since it was to Princeton, a club outside New England...