Word: thyroid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...medicinal substance to seek out and destroy cancer cells without harming normal body cells. All known drugs fail. But radioactive isotopes of elements normally used by the body have recently been found to be effective against two diseases helpful in studying cancer. The diseases: 1) hyperthyroidism (overactivity of the thyroid gland); 2) polycythemia (overactivity of tissues which manufacture red blood cells...
Just because the University of Connecticut in a relatively small institution without hyper-thyroid press agents, let not Crimson football rooter hold the roseate opinion that Harvard will have everything its own way on Soldiers Field thin Saturday. Although there has not yet been devised any infallible method of judging a team's strength before it has played a game, reports emanating from Storrs, Conn., habitat of the U-Conn-Huskies, as the Crimson's first opponent, likes to be called, seem to indicate that the men from the Nutmeg State should enter the Stadium on at least even terms...
Singing to Shrimp. Before she could make the big time, Jo needed glamorizing. Thyroid pills and strict dieting cut her down to 135 pounds in six months. ("No matter how much grass you eat, those hot rolls and butter are what you miss.") To give her a widow's-peak hairline, a hairdresser yanked out chunks of her hair. The rest of her hair, which was once brown, was dyed...
Conclusion: if Learned had had thyroid cancer, the radioactive iodine (the thyroid gland shows an affinity for iodine) would have attacked the cancerous tissue. With the caution which characterizes all statements on cancer. Physicist Evans emphasized that radioactive iodine was effective only against cancer of the thyroid...
Medicine, too, said Seaborg, can use the magic pile, both for studying diseases and for curing them. Radioactive iodine, for instance, follows ordinary iodine through the human body. Its rate of accumulation in the thyroid gland (shown by holding a radiation counter near the throat) diagnoses accurately the condition of the gland in goiter and related diseases (see MEDICINE...