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Folkman and his fellow researchers found thathemoglobin solutions could support an isolatedthyroid gland in a glass chamber. They thenchecked to see if the thyroid gland could supporttumor growth...
...struggle to keep their physical frailties secret. Eisenhower called his first heart attack digestive upset. Kennedy played touch football with over-compensating vigor rather than give a hint of his Addison's disease. Bush got no sympathy for throwing up in Japan and no understanding when an aide blamed thyroid medicine for his cluelessness during the '92 campaign. Dole's remarking that "Some of the things that we read about don't return as quickly as advertised" after prostate surgery just reminded...
CHICAGO: The ethics of the Zeneca case looked even more problematic following news that the maker of a pricey synthetic thyroid hormone suppressed research findings that cheaper alternatives are just as effective in controlling thyroid-related illnesses. A story in Wednesday's issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association said the Knoll Pharmaceutical Company attempted to discredit and keep from public view a University of California study that found Synthroid, the firm's flagship thyroid medication, no more effective than the generic competition. Although Synthroid's prior manufacturer, Flint Laboratories, commissioned the study, Knoll reportedly threatened author Betty...
...relief workers The husband and wife founded Children of Chornobyl Relief Fund in 1990, shortly after the veil of secrecy over the 1986 nuclear disaster in Ukraine, their homeland, began to unravel. CCRF has delivered more than $40 million in medical aid to "the littlest victims," still plagued by thyroid cancer and birth defects. Quoting the Talmud, Nadia says, "If we've saved a life, we've saved humanity...
...down Sunset Boulevard with an ocelot. He doesn't even have a Filipino houseboy. This is a movie star? He goes to P.T.A. meetings. He has been married to the same woman for 15 years. His swimming pool is not in the shape of a grand piano or a thyroid gland. And have you heard? He wears the tops and bottoms of his pajamas, both...