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Surprising Fact. So far, all but two of the patients treated have lost most of their pain. The exceptions: one with lung cancer, one with "phantom limb" pain after an arm amputation. Best results have been in cancers of the face and neck. The surgeons leave the electrodes in place so that the patients can go home and lead drug-free, lives, as near normal as their disease will permit. They can return for treatment to destroy a further part of the thalamus if pain recurs...
...sharpen a big and costly type of hypodermic needle, he had no idea that the trail would lead into the human heart. But more Convair design specialists and engineers got interested in medical gadgeteering; *last week a notable result was announced. They had developed a new and sophisticated heart-lung machine...
...they had "all-tobacco" cigarettes specially made-wrapped in ordinary cigarette-tobacco leaf. Then they painted the collected tars on the shaved backs of mice, and counted the resulting cancers. While a mouse's back is admittedly not the same as the inside of a man's lung, histologists (tissue specialists) say that it is of essentially the same structure and shows similar reactions...
Cigar and pipe smokers get less lung cancer than heavy cigarette smokers, but more cancer of the mouth. The researchers got at least as many cancers on mice with cigar and pipe tar as with tar from cigarettes (whether paper-or leaf-wrapped). So, they conclude, if smoking is to be eliminated as a cause of cancer, the dangerous substances must be eliminated from all forms of tobacco...
Died. Edward Adam Strecker, 72, emeritus professor of psychiatry at the medical school of the University of Pennsylvania, expert on behavior disorders of children, author, whose 1946 study Their Mothers' Sons examined the U.S.'s "mom-archie" society, attributed much mental disease to "momism"; of lung cancer; in Philadelphia. In Strecker's lexicon, a "Mom" was not a mother. "Mom is a maternal parent who fails to prepare her offspring emotionally for living a productive adult life on an adult social plane. A Mom does not untie the emotional apron string," and the result is an immature...