Word: thallium
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...screened for heart disease, people are subjected to an exercise stress test or injected with radioactive thallium before undergoing an X-ray. Now research shows that an ultrafast CAT-SCAN can do the job just as well. The scan takes speedy "stop motion" pictures of the heart that spot coronary artery-clogging deposits...
Female breasts, he says, may also influence irregularities on thallium stress tests; simply put, the breast tissue gets in the way of the imaging technique. Doctors at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City have apparently circumvented that problem by using the PET (positron-emission tomography) scan, which they say is highly accurate in detecting even minor heart damage in women...
...Trepal, a science buff and member of Mensa, a social club for the high IQed, grew tired of his neighbors' loud music and barking dogs. He left a death threat on the door, and when that didn't work he slipped into the Carr family kitchen and laced some thallium nitrite into a pack of 16-oz. Coca-Cola Classic bottles. A few days later Peggy Carr's hair began falling out. Her feet burned, her fingers tingled and her stomach turned. Within a few weeks she was in a coma; three months later she was dead. Her sons...
...doorstep," he wrote in a booklet for the event, "prudent people throw out all their food and watch what they eat." An undercover agent, planted in Mensa to befriend Trepal and learn his secrets, ultimately found the evidence against him: a small vial in the garage containing traces of thallium. How could a genius be so dumb...
...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...