Word: skin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Erythropoietic protoporphyria (EPP) is an uncommon condition; in the entire U.S. there are no more than a thousand known victims. But those who have this metabolic abnormality must lead highly sheltered lives; sunlight causes their skin to swell or break out in blisters. Some victims develop gallstones. In the past, victims of EPP have had to avoid direct sunlight as much as possible, covering up or staying indoors entirely during the summer months. Now they have an alternative. A team of researchers headed by Dr. Micheline M. Mathews-Roth of Harvard Medical School has found that betacarotene, a substance that...
Shortly after Premier José Batista Pinheiro de Azevedo took office last month, Portuguese Socialists dubbed him "the admiral without fear. "A warm, outgoing man with ruddy skin, thick hands and peasant features, Pinheiro de Azevedo, 58, does not much like the nickname but concedes: "In some ways it is correct because when I have a decision in my head, I put it into action immediately. " Last week, at his office in Lisbon 's São Bento palace, Pinheiro de Azevedo talked candidly about some of the decisions he faces with TIME Correspondent George Taber...
...Russia, researchers have found that workers exposed to chloroprene (the base for several synthetic rubber products) have higher rates of skin and lung cancer than the rest of the population. Vinyl chloride, a colorless gas that is the basic ingredient of the widely used plastic poly vinyl chloride (PVC), has been identified as a cause of angiosarcoma of the liver. Until recently, this cancer was so rare that one Los Angeles hospital found only one case in 52,000 autopsies. Since last year, however, doctors have confirmed 19 cases of the cancer in the U.S. alone, 17 of them...
...Your article "Skin Trouble" [Sept. 22] failed to mention another up-and-coming skin mag-TIME...
Wild Ideas. Hunt and Liddy explored with him methods of drugging a man to make him incoherent. The three discussed placing on the steering wheel of the victim's car a drug that enters the body directly through the skin, but that idea was abandoned as too chancy. Then they considered slipping a pill or capsule filled with a hallucinogen into the victim's regular medicine bottles-but there was no telling when the pill would be taken. Finally, the three debated dropping a drug into the victim's drink at a cocktail party, but since Hunt...