Word: maimon
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Chromosome Breaks. Two cases obviously do not prove that "acid" is leukemogenic as well as hallucinogenic. For more than two years, however, laboratory evidence connecting LSD and leukemia has been mounting. Cell damage from LSD was first reported in March 1967 by a team of researchers headed by Dr. Maimon M. Cohen at the State University of New York in Buffalo. Within six months, so much evidence had accumulated that the National Foundation-March of Dimes called an emergency meeting of top geneticists to consider the problem. The geneticists were properly hesitant to report outright that LSD causes leukemia. Nevertheless...
...CURRIE MAIMON, M.D. Rockford...
...Maimon Cohen, geneticist at the State University of New York at Buffalo, reported last week that in a study of 220 LSD users between 70% and 80% showed chromosomal damage in their blood cells-four times the normal rate. What is more, he said, babies of women who had taken LSD during the first three months of pregnancy showed increased chromosome breaks in body cells...
...list as causing breaks in animal cells, though this effect has not yet been confirmed in human patients. The antibiotics have not been shown to cause breaks, except for two compounds used only for advanced cancer. But the heart stimulant digitoxin causes breaks, said Buffalo's Dr. Maimon M. Cohen...
Though much of the evidence is still preliminary, it all points in the same direction, and U.S. Government agencies are supporting efforts to get conclusive data. The first findings of chromosome changes in blood cells, reported by Dr. Maimon M. Cohen, at Buffalo's Children's Hospital (TIME, March 24), were confirmed by the University of Oregon's Dr. Samuel Irwin, working with Dr. Jose Egozcue. They compared the white blood cells of eight LSD users with those of nine nonusers. Six of the acidheads showed a marked increase in chromosomal breaks...