Word: ulcer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Columnist-TV Impresario Ed Sullivan, 57, who, having taped enough of his Sunday evening shows to last out the summer, was mending in a Manhattan hospital after removal of a chronic duodenal ulcer that had plagued him for some 25 years; Driver Stirling Moss, 30, bedded in a London hospital with two broken legs, a broken nose and a crushed vertebra after cracking up in a practice spin for the Belgian Grand Prix-but promising, as befits the world's best hell-for-rubber speed merchant, that he will go "straight back to racing" when his injuries heal...
...been used in humans. An odd mother-daughter combination is ruthenium-rhodium 106. Long-lived ruthenium 106 gives birth to short-lived rhodium 106, which in turn gives off energetic beta rays. The pair had seemed promising to destroy acid-secreting glands in certain cases of peptic ulcer. But some centers reported they have already quit using it because of excessive danger to technicians handling it. Said Dr. Marshall Brucer, medical chief at the Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies and a veteran in the field: "We can't do it all-there will be plenty for our sons...
Thirty Days. Continental began studying methods for insuring the health of the aged in the early 1950s, learned that the 65-and-above group contract remarkably few new diseases. "If you're going to get an ulcer or hypertension or cancer," says Dr. Clement G. Martin, Continental's medical director, "you'll most likely get it between the ages of 18 and 55." Furthermore, some of the most prevalent ailments do not require extremely expensive hospital treatment. Continental found that 60% of the people 65 and over who become ill have a hospital confinement of 30 days...
Cwiklinski, a 45-year-old fireman with an ulcer, was not flouting hospital rules. As one of 24 patients in St. Mary's 25-bed self-care unit, he was well within them. For over six months the new unit had been taking in patients whose needs are not urgent: observation, a routine physical exam, daily physical therapy, post-operative recuperation. Normally, the patients would have been confined to a bed, wakened regularly each morning, prodded unnecessarily with a thermometer, served lukewarm meals. In the self-care unit, they take their own medicine and their own baths...
Conspiracy of Hearts. Lilli Palmer is the mother superior of an Italian convent where Jewish children-escaped from a Nazi concentration camp-are sheltered. A movie of ulcer-perforating tension...