Word: leukemias
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...doubtful that any treatment so far devised for chronic lymphocytic leukemia (a form of leukemia that affects older adults) prolongs the patient's life, said Marquette University's Dr. Anthony V. Pisciotta, but it is possible to prolong useful life by transfusions, X ray and drug treatments which reduce unsightly tumor masses and control anemia. Two effective drugs: T.E.M. and a new one named chlorambucil...
...fact, the only tragedy in Duchin's life was death, a subject that Hollywood ordinarily does not like to contemplate with seriousness. Duchin's bride died in childbirth, and Eddy had scarcely recovered from the shock when he learned that he was afflicted with leukemia. The film suggests that he had no consolations, either of religion or philosophy, to help him face imminent extinction. Except for some murmured complaints about how unfair "They" are in arranging man's fate, the problem was resolved entirely in terms of how and when Eddy should tell his son and prospective...
...U.S.N., ret., 61. chief U.N. negotiator of the Korean War truce talks at Panmunjom from July 1951 to May 1952, onetime (1949-52) commander of U.S. Naval Forces in the Far East, 37th superintendent (1952-54) of the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, author (How Communists Negotiate); of leukemia: in San Diego. To Admiral Joy, the three-year Korean conflict was a tragic "holy war" which the U.N., by failing to press its advantages, lost to the Communists...
...when she was born in Cincinnati on Aug. 29, 1954. and she apparently throve on formula and some Pablum. At six months she seemed insatiably hungry. Still, her mother, a registered nurse, did not worry until 15 months, when Jo Ellen became abnormally irritable and puffy-faced. Doctors suspected leukemia-tests were negative. They thought of kidney disease-negative. Heart trouble-Jo Ellen was treated for three weeks and got no better. Finally they called in Blood Specialist Marion Eugene Lahey...
Died. Irene Joliot-Curie, 58, famed fellow-traveling French physicist, elder daughter of the late great discoverers of radium, Marie and Pierre Curie, winner (with her husband, Jean Frederic Joliot-Curie) of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1935) for their discovery of artificial radioactivity; of leukemia, from handling radioactive materials; in the Curie Hospital, Paris...