Word: livered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...test got its start ten years ago when Dr. Harry S. Penn of the University of California at Los Angeles extracted a substance from the liver of victims killed by cancer. The substance usually had no effect on blood samples from healthy persons, but it left a precipitate in samples from patients with cancer or some other diseases. The biggest trouble was that the liver fractions Dr. Penn obtained were too variable, and other medical men could not duplicate his results. Then a team of U.C.L.A. researchers joined Dr. Penn, broadened the attack and succeeded in making from bile acid...
...Among the common noncancerous conditions that also cause a Penn test to show up positive are active rheumatoid arthritis, tuberculosis, cirrhosis of the liver, fever, pregnancy and hormone treatments...
...Savannah River plant and others on the West Coast. Radioactivity in the Columbia River below the AEC's Hanford plant has not reached an alarming level, the health engineers report, and though fish pick up some, most of it settles in such inedible parts as bone, heart and liver...
Died. Crown Princess Martha of Norway, 53, wife of Crown Prince Olaf, daughter of Sweden's late Prince Carl and frequent White House guest while a refugee from Nazi-occupied Norway in World War II; of a liver ailment; in Oslo...
...their colleagues tried the combination on human patients, and ran into a snag of which animal tests had given no warning. Six patients out of 60 suffered liver damage, in some cases severe, and one died. At a Veterans Administration TB conference in St. Louis, the researchers sadly reported: this prescription is great for mice...