Word: marrow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Victims of radiation sickness (e.g., after an atomic bombing) are likely to die of anemia because the blood-building properties of the bone marrow are damaged. In everyday medical practice, X-ray dosages have to be worked out with utmost care to keep the patient from falling prey to radiation sickness. Treatment of cancer is often hampered by this limitation...
...that anti-histaminics have been proved worthless, but the council wants proof of their value to be shown by wider and far more searching studies, than any yet undertaken. And the council is still worried about harmful side effects (e.g., drowsiness, dizziness, damage to bone marrow, reduction of white blood cells) reported to follow the use of some anti-histaminics in certain cases...