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...School researchers are currently conducting animal experiments in an effort to isolate the effects of the potassium deficiencies that may result from unsupervised adherence to a new "fad" diet--predigested liquid proteins--Dr. George L. Blackburn, director of the nutrition support service at New England Deaconness Hospital, said yesterday...
Blackburn and three other researchers began the experiments on rats this fall following the deaths of 12 persons using the liquid protein weight-loss diet. Blackburn said yesterday he believes potassium deficiencies were partly or wholly responsible for the deaths...
...from the massive loss of body fluid-as much as several gallons a day-through diarrhea. They can prescribe antibiotics, especially tetracycline, which may shorten the duration of the diarrhea. The dehydration can also be reversed, and the patient rehydrated, with a simple solution containing common salt, baking soda, potassium chloride and glucose. If the patient is conscious and not vomiting too severely, he can take the solution orally. Otherwise, fluids must be given intravenously. Either way, if treatment is begun promptly, it can reduce the cholera death rate to near zero. The major obstacle to universal...
Lithium, a natural alkali salt of the same family as sodium and potassium, is an accepted drug, but exactly who should be taking it remains in doubt. The Food and Drug Administration has approved the drug for use only during the manic phase of manic-depression-a violent swing of moods from mind-racing euphoria to utter despair. Some doctors feel that lithium is being touted so hard that programs such as Maude may cause a public clamor for lithium to combat both severe depression and simple cases of the blues. Says Dr. Samuel Gershon of New York University...
...from samples in a laboratory"). As a cardiologist, he concentrated most of his efforts on the workings-and failings-of the heart. But he also looked elsewhere in the circulatory system, and in 1955 he made an important discovery: he learned that increases in the blood levels of potassium can stimulate the production of aldosterone, an adrenal hormone that raises blood pressure by causing the kidneys to retain salt...