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Research done at Minnesota's Mayo Clinic suggests that high dosages of vitamin C do not, as previously suspected, aid advanced cancer patients, the New England Journal of Medicine reported this week...
DIED. Gio Ponti, 87, innovative Italian architect, designer and founding publisher (in 1928) of Domus, a leading Italian architectural journal; of cancer; in Milan. Ponti's varied projects included a villa for the Shah of Iran, a ministry of industrial development for Iraq, and the auditorium of the Time-Life Building in Manhattan. But his best-known structure is Milan's 420-ft. wafer-thin Pirelli building, which towers higher than any other in Italy. A stalwart debunker of design cliches and a champion of functionalism, Ponti created scooper-like dinner forks, glass bookshelves in which the volumes...
When a Medical School research team finishes a project, not all of its results end up in the New England Journal of Medicine. Many of the byproducts are thrown out the back door--into the waiting clutches of a hazardous waste disposal truck...
...investigation leading to the discovery, reported last week in the New England Journal of Medicine, was launched three years ago when John Q, 37, checked in to the Boston hospital for surgery. He had malignant tumors in both kidneys, a condition that occurs in only 1% to 2% of all Americans with renal cancer and almost never before age 50. While taking the patient's history, doctors were startled to learn that one of his aunts also had kidney cancer. Turning sleuths, a team led by Dr. Robert S. Brown studied 40 family members spanning three generations. The resulting...
Tracing McIlroy's hospital visits was obviously a labor of love for Neurologist C.A. Pallis of Hammersmith Hospital and Rheumatologist A.N. Bamji of Middlesex Hospital. In their report to the British Medical Journal, they meticulously listed the 22 surnames and eight first names used in various combinations by Mcllroy in registering at different hospitals. (Mcllroy was identified by the description in clinical records of his scars and other physical characteristics.) The names of all the hospitals and the number of admittances to each were also faithfully recorded...