Word: thallium
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most bizarre artifact presented at the press conference was a bottle of Benedictine liqueur laced with a poison called thallium. Its ultimate recipient, Cerna charged, was to have been Foreign Minister D'Escoto, who is a Roman Catholic priest. "It sounds like a movie plot," Cerna admitted...
...evidence of obstruction in the coronary arteries. Radioactive isotopes with affinities for certain tissues are injected into the bloodstream. A special imaging device, called a scintillation camera, picks up the gamma rays emitted by the isotopes, and a computer translates the information into pictures. For example, by using thallium 201, an isotope that lodges in healthy heart muscle, doctors can tell if tissue has died as a result of a heart attack and whether blood is flowing freely through the coronary arteries. The test is usually performed first while the patient is exercising on a treadmill or bicycle and then...