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...radiophosphorus is good for these leukemias, in which the white cells become predominant, it is even better for polycythemia vera, in which the red cells get too numerous. This is because the radioactive atoms act on the bone marrow, where both types of blood cells are made. If either red or white cells are increasing too fast, the radioactivity cuts down their birth rate. For simple polycythemia (uncomplicated by disease of the heart or lungs), radioactive phosphorus is the best medication known today. Some patients are still getting along well 15 years after beginning this treatment, and their number...
...Bone cancers are hard to treat because if radioactive elements (such as calcium and phosphorus) settle in hard bone, they also affect the marrow and damage the blood-making cells. At Oak Ridge, doctors and radiologists have just eliminated gallium7 2 as unsuitable for treatment, largely because it takes too long to settle in the bone (and meanwhile loses most of its radioactivity). Next on their list is gallium...
...million paid out in their behalf last year, the California Physicians' Service is one of the nation's largest and most successful private medical plans. As such, it is offered as a working-model argument against state medicine. Last week C.P.S. was shocked to its bone marrow: 200 or more doctors had been gypping the plan by charging it for services they had never rendered. The swag was estimated at $1,000,000 to $1,200,000 a year...
Radiation affects the bone marrow, where the red cells are produced, and it is some weeks before the victim's system can take over again. White cells are manufactured in the marrow and lymph glands, which are also affected by radiation. The effects are delayed until about a week after a blast...
Marshall Davidson, of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art, wanted a new kind of U.S. history book and decided to write it himself. Instead of rechewing the dry bones of political campaigns, Civil War battles and tariff disputes, he went looking for the marrow in the U.S. past: the way Americans really spent their days...