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...called anti-cancer drug named Krebiozen. A refugee physician from Yugoslavia, Dr. Stevan Durovic, said that he extracted it from the blood of specially inoculated horses in Argentina and brought it to the U.S. in 1949. Its first trials on human patients were made by Chicago's famous Physiologist Andrew Conway Ivy, who announced what he considered promising results in March...
...Mullin, a burly, bespectacled physiologist with a West Texas drawl, came from a professorship at the University of Chicago medical school to become president of Shimer. By virtue of having taught doctors, he had one driving conviction-that professional men by and large are too narrowly educated, and need a broad liberal schooling before going into graduate schools...
...Half a world away, Peruvian Indians have lived for centuries on low oxygen concentrations in the high Andes. To learn more about what this has done to their hearts and lungs, and what happens when they go down to the low level at Lima, PHS is backing research by Physiologist Alberto Hurtado. U.S. spacemen are looking anxiously over his shoulder for the answers...
...which colorless fluids flow. The Romans did coin a name, but for the fluid only. They called it lympha, after a fancied resemblance to clear spring water. But nothing about the lymphatic system was clear then, or for another 2,000 years. Only now, says Tulane University's Physiologist Hymen S. Mayerson in a report to the American College of Surgeons, are the workings of the lymphatic system beginning to be understood. The body's second circulation system, he says, plays an essential role in keeping man alive and healthy by filtering gallons of fluid every day, transporting...
Last week at its annual meeting, the academy elected a new president. Retired after an unprecedented three terms was Physiologist Detlev W. Bronk, 64, who has run the academy since 1950. Chosen to take his place was 50-year-old Dr. Frederick Seitz, a dry-humored physicist from the University of Illinois, who has played a bright role in a new science: solid-state physics...