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Callahan is listed in "seriously ill and stable" condition at the spinal lesion center of the West Roxbury V.A. Hospital, a hospital spokesman, who refused to comment further, said yesterday...
Koshland said psychological diseases are also influenced by hereditary and environmental factors. A person with a biochemical lesion, which usually causes schizophrenia, might avoid the disease if he were brought up in a tranquil environment...
...slightly over one year ago, concluding that TAF is a protein that malignant tissue releases, instructing neighboring tissue to supply the budding tumor with a blood supply. Other pathologic conditions, as well as cancers, depend on the obedience of the victim in setting up an arterial supply to the lesion, or disease focus. What doctors speculate Monsanto is investing in is an agent or antibody that could block the action of the TAF protein. Such a pharmaceutical could be administered systematically upon diagnosis of a primary tumor, and the presence of the anti-TAF might insure that secondary and hidden...
Even in his Houston hospital bed, Astronaut Donald "Deke" Slayton, 51, was flying high. Shortly after his July 24th return from the Apollo-Soyuz space flight, during which Slayton and fellow Crew Members Thomas Stafford and Vance Brand had inhaled poisonous fumes, doctors spotted a tiny lesion on Deke's left lung. Because of Slayton's age and past history as a chain smoker, a better than 50-50 chance of malignancy was predicted. "He's an extremely lucky man," said Dr. Charles Berry after announcing that Slayton's tumor was benign. Not only will Deke...
...morning to donate their own bone marrow. Under local anesthesia the marrow is taken from the hip through a hollow needle. Later the same day they go to the dentist's office, where the marrow is implanted. The procedure, which involves laying back the gum and cleaning the lesion around the tooth before filling it with bone marrow, rarely takes more than half an hour...