Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brookhaven, AEC doctors have fitted tiny lead shields around the adrenal glands of rats and turned on the radiation. These rats lived significantly longer than unshielded ones, proving that radiation does part of its damage by upsetting the hormone secretions of the adrenal gland. Other researchers found that treatment with female sex hormones increased rats' resistance to radiation. Out of such work may come techniques of immunization against the radiation hazards which, even without atomic war, are sure to become more troublesome in the future...
...paper drive, organized by the mothers, raised enough money to buy Beauregard the first telebinocular (for eye tests) and Audiograph (for hearing tests) in any New Orleans public school. Among the first 65 children tested, Schwertz found 38 who needed glasses or other eye treatment, and several who were being handicapped by deafness...
...presence of cancers, West found, the chymotrypsin inhibitor is greatly multiplied. As soon as a cancer patient responds favorably to treatment, the normal proportion (with the rennin inhibitor more abundant) is restored. Sometimes, West reported this week in the Annals of Western Medicine and Surgery, his test will give the first indication that a patient needs fresh treatment (for example, X rays) if recovery is to continue...
U.C.L.A. rashly called the West test "the first rapid and accurate method" of determining whether cancer treatment is having any effect...
...Lubianka. When Anders still refused to join the Red Army and to confess to crimes he had never committed, he was taken to Moscow's Lubianka prison. Here he was again submitted to the NKVD treatment-sometimes being wooed with cigarettes and tea, at other times being smashed in the face and kicked...