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...last year, doctors used some 8.8 million units of blood to give transfusions to patients undergoing extensive surgery, suffering from injuries, hemophilia or such diseases as leukemia and aplastic anemia. Because voluntary donations fall short of the amount that hospitals need, much of the blood used for transfusions came from Skid Row derelicts or drug addicts who sold it for the price of a bottle or a fix. Many of those blood peddlers had hepatitis. Thus every year an estimated 17,000 cases of hepatitis result from transfused blood. One in twenty of these patients eventually dies from the debilitating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Better Blood Banking | 11/18/1974 | See Source »

...both benign and malignant) on thyroid glands, they hastily abandoned the procedure. In 1958, Dr. C. Lenore Simpson of the Roswell Park Memorial Institute in Buffalo confirmed their growing fears by reporting that children who had received X-ray treatments were far more likely to develop thyroid cancer and leukemia than those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Radiological Time Bomb | 9/23/1974 | See Source »

...Pope's appearance at last month's feast of the Assumption; he surefootedly negotiated the cobblestone streets near his summer villa at Castel Gandolfo to say Mass at a parish church. Rumors about Paul's health vary widely. Some reports hold that he has leukemia; others say that he suffers no more than pernicious anemia. In any event, the Pope appears to be actively considering the succession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Tidings | 9/16/1974 | See Source »

...oldest of the anti-cancer drugs, methotrexate has been around since 1948. It works by interrupting the cells' reproductive cycle. In low dosages, it has long been effective in controlling leukemia and certain other cancers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: High-Risk Hope For Children's Cancer | 7/15/1974 | See Source »

...almost three years ago that Alsop discovered that he had leukemia, and doctors gave him roughly a year to live. But his disease proved atypical, and he lived beyond his allotted span. The best description the doctors could find for it was "smoldering leukemia," and between periods of hospitalization he had remissions during which he felt fine, wrote his columns and sometimes even played tennis. But he went through an ordeal of uncertainty, savagely ranging between hope and despair. Out of that ordeal he wrote his memorable book, Stay of Execution, an almost classic deathbed testament that is partly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: An Instinct for the Center | 6/10/1974 | See Source »

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