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...cancer, which spread despite surgery and drug and X-ray treatment. On July 23, Dr. Thomas Starzl's University of Colorado transplant team removed her liver and replaced it with one from a child killed in an accident. Julie has since had part of a lung and another tumor removed; she may still have cancer. But, says her mother, "she's a lot happier. She's really 100% better. The future-we don't know. We didn't have any before. But I've had her four months longer than I would have otherwise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Patients' Progress | 12/1/1967 | See Source »

Last week at 17 (equivalent human age: 50), Native Dancer fell ill, and was rushed to the University of Pennsylvania's veterinary hospital, where surgeons removed an intestinal tumor. The operation was not a success; Native Dancer died of shock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Horse Racing: Passing of the Ghost | 11/24/1967 | See Source »

...officer on a U.S. Navy ship may be able to tune in a device that can reproduce a three-dimensional image of an enemy submarine scores of fathoms below the surface. Or a brain surgeon may have at his fingertips the means to see, in 3D, a deep, tiny tumor that even modern X-ray techniques could not detect. Such far-out capabilities are now within reach thanks to Scientists Alexander Metherell, John Dreher, Lewis Laramore and Hussein El-Sum, of the McDonnell Douglas Corp.'s Advanced Research Laboratories at Huntington Beach, Calif. Last week, writing in the Journal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Acoustics: Making 3-D Pictures with Sound | 11/10/1967 | See Source »

...Paul VI, 69, with a cold, intestinal cramps, nausea and intermittent fever that brought him back from his summer residence at Castel Gandolfo and caused him to cancel all appointments; Nellie Connolly, 47, wife of Texas' Democratic Governor, recuperating in Houston's M. D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute after removal of a benign, olive-size growth on her jaw; General Earle G. Wheeler, 59, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, recovering at Walter Reed Hospital from a "minor" heart attack that was disclosed by the Pentagon after two days of denials that he suffered from anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 15, 1967 | 9/15/1967 | See Source »

...more active substances, such as histamine. At first these constrict the blood vessels, to minimize bleeding, and initiate the clotting process. But they damage the vessels' walls, causing dilation and rubor, and letting out white cells and antibody proteins. Fluid oozes from blood vessels into the tissues, causing tumor and dolor. Biochemical signals sent through the blood and lymph systems call for the production of more infection-fighting white cells and antibodies. If the threat has been great enough, the inflammation suffuses the whole body, creating a generalized calor-fever. In its final stages, inflammation stimulates the production...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pathology: What Causes Inflammation And Why It Occurs | 6/16/1967 | See Source »

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