Word: hodgkin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their wide use, particularly in rheumatic disorders, have long since been convicted of causing or exacerbating peptic ulcers, of giving users a fattened "moon" face, and growing mustaches on women. Colonel Moser emphasized two severe unpleasant side effects that may go undetected. Given to victims of leukemia or Hodgkin's disease, he said, these hormones predispose the patients to fungus infections, and they leach the calcium out of the bones of the bedridden elderly...
...sizzling redhead who delighted in challenging men to rodeo and log-riding events, served ably as her state's first woman Representative, specializing in federal land projects, but lost to Incumbent Republican Len Jordan in a 1962 bid for a Senate seat; of Hodgkin's disease; in Baltimore...
...fortunate fact that Hodgkin's is a relatively rare disease (3,300 deaths a year in the U.S.) makes it tough for epidemiologists to answer such questions. They have at last figured out that if one member of a family has Hodgkin's, the chance that close relatives will get it is about three times greater than normal. But when such related cases occur, are they the result of inherited factors, or of infection, or just coincidence? As for the students, the two men were unrelated and did not even come from the same town...
...fraternity house, while No. 1 lived off the campus with his wife. But when No. 2 went away for a few weeks in early 1962, No. 1 moved into his dormitory room. It is now clear that No. 2 was then already showing the first signs of Hodgkin's and No. 1's case developed six months later...
...room still contained most of Student 2's belongings," says Dr. W. K. George in College Health, "and it is probable that the bed linens had not been changed." The researchers are not convinced that Hodgkin's?a baffling disease marked by periodic fevers and lassitude?can be transmitted in any such obvious fashion. But the facts are reminiscent of an earlier observation: in 1960, in a large group of Hodgkin's victims in Germany, every patient was found to have been previously infected with an ornithosis virus like that of psittacosis (parrot fever). In the Galveston case, the researchers...