Word: leukemias
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Died. Frank Aloysius Barrett, 69, only Wyoming politician to serve his state as a U.S. Representative (1943-50), Governor (1951-53) and U.S. Senator (1953-59), a beefy ranchers' Republican who firmly plunked for his state's oil-and-grange interests; of leukemia; in Cheyenne...
...cities carry green health cards assuring them of free medical attention for any ailment whatever. Nonetheless, after 15 years of meticulously sifting case histories, a 1,000-man, U.S.Japanese casualty commission in Hiroshima and Nagasaki has found no evidence that either city has a higher rate of deformed births, leukemia or other radiation-linked diseases than any other community in Japan...
...secret service on the strength of his successes as a gangbusting police chief in a series of British cities, thereafter roamed the Commonwealth, often in disguise, investigating security capers that ranged from Communist meddling in the Mau Mau uprising to the defection of British scientists and diplomats; of leukemia; in Eastbourne, England...
...kills herself after "six months in a sanitarium under the care of a psychiatrist who could do no more than apply a poultice of polysyllables to a wound he could neither see nor understand." Wanderhope is left with a daughter who is herself condemned to die of leukemia at twelve. During the ordeal of visits to the hospital as she lies dying, he turns back to take some measure of the faith lost at his brother's deathbed...
...leading researchers in Phoenix this week for an exchange of progress reports. Among the significant findings: > Though scarce and "very costly," said Yale University's Dr. Robert E. Handschumacher, a new drug shows unique promise in relieving the crises of adult patients suffering from some forms of acute leukemia. Earlier anti-leukemic drugs worked mostly in children and were almost as poisonous to the patient as to his cancerous cells. But 6-azauridine, which has to be injected, and a still newer chemical variant that can be taken by mouth apparently do not poison the patient's blood...