Word: leukemias
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Army soldiers and Utah residents exposed to fallout from the A-bomb tests of the 1950s and early '60s, the workers all wore dosimeters-simple instruments for measuring radiation. Their records will be maintained and the workers observed for radiation effects like leukemia. The study's sponsors: the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission...
...courts of Massachusetts saw differently. The following year, in the case of Joseph Saikewicz, a severely mentally retarded patient who was dying of leukemia, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts delegated the courts find authority in the right-to-die decision, and touched off a heated battle between the legal and medical professions...
DIED. John Carroll, 70, dark, mustachioed actor who played Zorro in films and whose audacious life-style matched his swashbuckling cinema roles; of leukemia; in Hollywood...
...raged in the IAB last night as amateur boxers from the Boston and New York areas battled before a crowd of 800 in eight bouts to benefit the Boston chapter of the Leukemia Foundation...
Harvard's Black Student Athletes Association sponsored the evening called "The Fight Against Leukemia Night." George Jackson '80, president of the association and organizer of the event, said last night. "The fans are seeing some of the top amateur fighter on the east coast and I think they're enjoying...