Word: thyroids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Iodine Is Unique. So far, about the only evident cure that atomic medicine can claim is with radioactive iodine in severe cases of Graves's disease (overactivity of the thyroid gland). For these, it is as good as other drugs or surgery, and probably better. Until radioisotopes began to be made (in cyclotrons) in the '303, doctors were able to use only "external radiation"-X rays from an assortment of machines-or the closely related gamma rays given off by radium as it decays to lead. But the thyroid picks up any isotope of iodine in a greater...
However, they found another valuable treatment use for radio-iodine. Cancer of the thyroid is not a common disease, and most cases do not yield to radio-iodine...
...time, the thyroid-cancer colonies which spread through the body behave like little thyroid glands and pick up radio-iodine. Such a case was that of Norman Bennett...
...Masters Tournament at Augusta, Ga.-he deliberately shifts himself into a state in which people blend into the landscape like so many trees or blades of grass. Opponents actually believe that he has learned how to control his heartbeat and regulate the flow of juices from his thyroid and adrenal glands...
...French Lick, Ind., Dr. Edwin Bennett Astwood of Tufts Medical School received the $1,000 Borden Award for thyroid research, and for finding ways to extract more ACTH from the pituitary glands of hogs...