Word: thyroidal
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...Saul Hertz, instructor in Medicine in the Medical School, has announced that he has founded an institution, The Radioactive Isotope Research Institute, whose purpose is to apply radioactive fission products to the treatment of the thyroid cancer, goiter, and other malignant growths...
...Hertz is connected with both the Medical School and Beth Israel Hospital as medical associate and research associate. In the past, he has been in charge of the Thyroid Clinic of the Massachusetts General Hospital and Research Associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
Chiefly concerned are isotopes of elements which the thyroid, especially in cases of toxic goiter, has the property of absorbing and concentrating at the afflicted portion of the gland. This process enables the radiation emitted by the radioactive isotopes to destroy harmful growths. Other elements which do not become concentrated in the body as iodine does, may be used in research on body chemistry, since by their effect on a Geiger counter, their progress through the body may be traced--thus they are termed "tracer elements...
Last week a new experiment in treatment, the result of 20 years' work, was announced by four Mayo Clinic researchers: Dr. Philip S. Hench, an authority on arthritis, Dr. Edward C. Kendall, who isolated the thyroid hormone (TIME, Nov. 8, 1937), and Drs. Charles H. Slocumb and Howard F. Polley...
Died. Henry Noble Hall, 76, British-born veteran reporter, lecturer and author; after a stroke; in Manhattan. In 1946, suffering from a thyroid cancer, Hall offered himself as a human guinea pig. From glasses handed him in tongs at arm's length, he drank "Hiroshima Cocktails" (radioactive iodine from the Oak Ridge atom pile) which slowed the cancer. Knowing that the cure was incomplete, he had time to write detailed notes for the doctors...