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Even in the best hospitals. vitamin-A child poisoning often goes undetected because its very symptoms-irritableness, painful movements, and tenderness to the examining doctor's touch-along with X-ray changes, are all too easily confused with the signs of syphilis, leukemia, or even, ironically, scurvy, which results from a deficiency of vitamin C. But if the X rays show premature hardening of the gristlelike ends where children's bones grow, says Dr. Pease, physicians should be alert for vitamin poisoning...
...needle. The hematologists who examined the marrow smears under the micro scope could not agree. Though there were enough cells present to rule out aplastic anemia, one of the deadliest forms of the disease, some of the experts thought that the abnormal cell forms suggested an obscure type of leukemia. Others said...
...assignment from his police beat on the Newark (N.J.) Evening News in 1909, who went on to write 200 children's books of the bunny's adventures in Hollow Stump with Fuzzy Wuzzy Nurse Jane and Dr. Possum that sold more than 5,000,000 copies; of leukemia; in Northampton, Mass...
SANE has tried, at great expense, to publicize the magnitude of possible disaster, and to exploit the consequent fear. This was not successful, because the very nature of thermonuclear catastrophe, in which whole cities and nations burst into flame, makes the horror impersonal. It becomes abstract, like the galloping leukemia rate...hardly relevant to any given individual...
...performing delicate experiments to isolate such a virus from the cancers. But the region is a rich source of competing and often confusing viruses. Ironically, one of these, named Bunyamwera (after a Uganda district), has been tried experimentally as a treatment for cancer. It was a cluster of leukemia cases among children in the Chicago suburb of Niles, Ill. (TIME, June 2, 1961), that backed up the suggestion of a viral role in the lymphatic leukemia of American children...