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...radium and X rays are still the basic, most successful treatments. Some 90% of Memorial's patients are operated on (the hospital's "fiveyear cure" rate for stomach cancer: 25%). But Memorial is also pioneering in hormones for breast and prostate cancers, radioactive iodine for thyroid cancers, nitrogen mustards for Hodgkin's disease, radioactive phosphorus for certain forms of leukemia, a urine test for early cancer detection, studies of an extract of the adrenal gland, which looks like a hopeful candidate against stomach cancer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cancer University | 11/3/1947 | See Source »

...avoid the bends (caused by nitrogen bubbles in the blood), high-altitude flyers during the war usually breathed pure oxygen, or a mixture of oxygen and helium, for an hour or more before taking off. But they suffered no ill effects because they breathed it at ground level atmospheric pressure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Too Much Oxygen | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

...pits were too busy to look up for more than an instant. Bill Holland, who had taken the lead (earning $100 in prize money for each lap he led) rolled in to the pit for his first stop. It took 14 seconds to change a weakening tire; nitrogen bottles blew fuel from drums into the tank; Holland patted his crash helmet, pulled down his goggles and sped off. The merry-go-round went on. With only 100 miles to go, Lou Moore's two drivers were running...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: EZY Did It | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

Under ordinary conditions, the straining atoms contain themselves. But a sufficient disturbance, such as heat or shock in the presence of certain impurities, shatters the barrier. Every oxygen atom grabs two hydrogen atoms. Every pair of nitrogen atoms, deserted, grabs a single oxygen. In consummating these unions, the atoms generate enormous heat-and the salt flashes into gases: superheated steam (H2O) and nitrous oxide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Restless Molecule | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

...director of the Havemayer lab at N.Y.U. from 1907 to 1912, and after World War I established the Fixed Nitrogen Research Laboratory, which led in the establishment of a new industry in this country...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lamb Retires as Director of Chem Lab | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

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