Word: leukemias
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...medicine was none too good, either. The scientific exhibit that won first prize (a gold medal) illustrated a method that might help victims of radiation. J. Garrott Allen and six co-workers at the University of Chicago Medical School were able to stop hemorrhage in people suffering from acute leukemia. (Hemorrhage is one of the reasons people die from radiation.) They used two drugs which worked equally well: toluidine blue, a tissue stain, and protamine sulfate, a protein compound. The doctors used the drugs on dogs that had fatal doses of X rays, and prolonged the dogs' lives...
...with leukemia, depressed by the state of the divided world, he began to doubt his basic premise. Last week, Geoffrey Pyke, 54, gave up, killed himself with an overdose of a barbiturate. It was the only unoriginal thing he had ever done...
Died. George E. Dietrich, 53, one of the McKesson & Robbins drug firm officers who swindled the firm out of about $11,000,000 in the late '30s; of leukemia; in Roslyn, L.I. Assistant Treasurer Dietrich (born Musica) worked with President F. Donald Coster (real name: Philip Musica) and two other brothers in the firm in the two-year embezzlement, but ratted on his brothers in court, escaped with a 2½-year prison sentence...
...Memorial's patients are operated on (the hospital's "fiveyear cure" rate for stomach cancer: 25%). But Memorial is also pioneering in hormones for breast and prostate cancers, radioactive iodine for thyroid cancers, nitrogen mustards for Hodgkin's disease, radioactive phosphorus for certain forms of leukemia, a urine test for early cancer detection, studies of an extract of the adrenal gland, which looks like a hopeful candidate against stomach cancer...
Died. Janet Fairbank, 44, concert soprano, venturesome talent-hunter, daughter of Novelist Janet Ayer Fairbank (The Bright Land), niece of Pulitzer Novelist Margaret Ayer Barnes (Years of Grace); of malignant leukemia; in Chicago. Her practice of singing new songs instead of sure-fire classics consistently lost her money, won her the gratitude of young U.S. composers...