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...Hertz is connected with both the Medical School and Beth Israel Hospital as medical associate and research associate. In the past, he has been in charge of the Thyroid Clinic of the Massachusetts General Hospital and Research Associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
...research conducted by Dr. Hertz and others which led to the Radioactive Isotope Research Institute, was financed by a grant from the John and Mary Markle Fund in New York City and the Milton N. Proctor Fund here. Most of the work was done at the Massachusetts General Hospital and at M.I.T...
...Hertz has long hoped that the government will set up a centralized agency to handle the distribution of radioactive isotopes for use by private enterprises working on approved projects. Now that isotopes are about to be released in greater quantity than ever before, the matter is assuming immediate importance. For although more isotopes are available than previously, the quantity at hand is limited and an efficient organization in the field is necessary...
...Institute, financed by the establishment of a memorial to the Aaron Daniel and Bertha Hertz family of Cleveland, Ohio, will be the first privately endowed organization to receive regularly a clinical supply of radioactive iodine and radioactive phosphorous, by-products of the uranium piles which produce plutonium for use in atomic bombs. This method of production is relatively cheap, since the only alternative means is cyclotron bombardment which produces such small quantities as to be impractical for the desired scale of operation...
...Hertz feels that the application of isotope research to the cancer problem will be along "tracer" lines, since it has been demonstrated that the majority of cancerous thyroids do not take up the radioactive iodine in the manner in which do the glands of patients suffering from Gravea' disease...