Word: recurs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end, the State Department released a note of protest to the Nationalist government. It denounced the shelling as "unjustifiable and contrary to the law and practice of nations," and "requested" that the Chinese government issue orders that such incidents did not recur. If face meant some show of consistency, firmness and healthy self-respect, it was an Oriental concept that might be difficult to achieve, but was long overdue in U.S. policy in Asia...
Though the effect has been known for 20 years or more, the cause is still a mystery. Best guess: a hormone does the trick. Hormone secretions are radically altered during pregnancy, with one ovarian secretion predominating. When the previous hormone balance is restored after childbirth, ulcer symptoms usually recur. Even this temporary relief is not available to most victims, for probably...
...from the urine of pregnant mares. In capsule form it can be taken orally. In a recent Harper Hospital Bulletin, Dr. Sandweiss reported that he began testing equine anthelone on 50 patients nine months ago. He will not announce findings until he can be sure whether the ulcers will recur. But his ultimate hope is to correct one of nature's ironies-the irony of making men especially subject to ulcers, then providing the possible cure in the glands of women...
...help only 25%," says Dr. Rhoads, "and they have remissions only. Their disease will recur and recur, perhaps in more violent form. Some people ask, 'Why keep them alive, if they must die eventually?' But we're moving faster now. Perhaps, before they exhaust their last remission, we'll have something really good. And you've seen how happy they...
...annually. At present the only known cure for cancer is destruction: the surgeon's knife or radiation (X rays and radium). Such methods work well with some forms of cancer. Skin cancer, for instance, can nearly always be removed so completely that it does not recur. Other accessible cancers can be dealt with too, and surgical methods are improving constantly. A recent advance saves many patients who have a vital artery that has been attacked. An "artery bank" supplied from such sources as amputation cases makes it possible for the surgeon to replace a cancerous artery almost...