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...considered transferring his powers to the Vice President under the 25th Amendment so that doctors could put him under general anesthesia and administer an electric shock to stabilize his heartbeat. The treatment proved unnecessary, and tests later showed that Bush's condition was caused by Graves' disease, a noncontagious thyroid ailment that, coincidentally, also afflicts First Lady Barbara Bush. The condition is usually manageable with drugs and low doses of radiation. Bush returned to the White House early last week and resumed work, albeit at a slightly less frantic pace...
...example, in a recent endrocinology tutorial the students discussed a patient with thyroid problems. The class then examined the case of the sophomore at Harvard who visits the University Health Services because of fever, sore throat and ear ache. The diagnosis: a thyroid problem...
...miles) from the reactor, levels of radioactivity are still nine times as high as the acceptable limits, according to the local Communist Party chief. Vladimir Lysovsky, a doctor at Narodichi District Central Hospital, contends that in the past 18 months, there has been a dramatic rise in cases of thyroid disease, anemia and cancer. Residents also have begun complaining of fatigue and loss of vision and appetite -- all symptoms of radiation sickness. Worst of all, there has been a startling drop in the immunity level of the entire population. "Healthy people are having trouble getting over their illnesses," Lysovsky notes...
Debi Lane's nightmare began last November with a routine thyroid test. When she returned for the results the next day, doctors at the Desert Samaritan Hospital in Mesa, Ariz., had chilling news. "There's been a terrible mistake," they told the 41-year-old mother of four. "Basically, we've killed your thyroid...
Instead of a small dose of mildly radioactive iodine, Lane had been treated with a megadose of radiation normally given to patients with thyroid cancer. She spent four days in a hospital isolation ward while her home was scrubbed down. Doctors say she has already contaminated her children...