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...synthetic substance that belongs to the sex hormone family but has no effect on sex characteristics and is not really a hormone* was reported last week to be the most promising new weapon in the drug treatment of breast cancer. Dr. Albert Segaloff, of New Orleans' Alton Ochsner Medical Foundation, described the paradoxical chemical and its promising performance to 750 experts gathered in Washington by the Public Health Service's Cancer Chemotherapy National Service Center to report progress on the most active sector of the anticancer front (TIME, July...
...once he was back in his own state, Louisiana's mad Governor erupted once more. Scarcely had he signed in at New Orleans' Ochsner Foundation Hospital than he began demanding his release again. For three hours his doctors tried to outtalk him, but Earl insisted that he wanted only to drive to his farm-or maybe a friend's farm-where he could rest. He was, after all, still the Governor of Louisiana; nobody could stop him, he cried. But wife Blanche...
...poker, in war, in life, the doughty warrior had one question to ask: "What chance have I got of winning?" This week, in New Orleans' Ochsner Foundation Hospital, shrunk to a shell by cancer, Lieut. General * Claire Chennault, 67, lost...
That warning delivered, Mme. Chiang flew off to New Orleans to see an old friend and fellow freedom fighter whose sentiments were similar: Major General Claire Lee Chennault, 67, the old commander of the Flying Tigers, who is now fighting a tough battle against lung cancer in Ochsner Foundation Hospital. "I can't talk very well," said Chennault, sitting on the edge of his hospital bed. Said Mme. Chiang with a smile: "Well, you always talked too much anyway. I want to do the talking this time." And she added a final word to the old Flying Tiger that...
Half a Pack a Day. Like other chest surgeons, Graham began to see more and more cases of lung cancer in the '30s, especially among men. His friend and fellow surgeon, Alton Ochsner of New Orleans (TIME, Jan. 2, 1956), who did not smoke, had his own answer: it was caused by smoking. Dr. Graham, who smoked half a pack a day, was at first unconvinced by his ebullient colleague. World War II halted further studies of this problem, but in 1947 a second-year medical student named Ernest L. Wynder went to Graham and suggested a statistical study...