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...disease of the large bowel that kept Secretary John Foster Dulles bedfast in Walter Reed Army Hospital last week (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) was considered rare until the turn of the century. Since then, with X-ray techniques constantly improving, it has become clear that diverticulosis is one of the commonest disorders of the aging, though often it gives no trouble. But diverticulitis severe enough to send the victim to a hospital has become a routine diagnosis...
...size of a plum with a stalklike neck. If the neck is extremely narrow, fecal matter forced into the diverticulum will stay there, setting up an ever-present threat of infection and making the condition harder to detect since the barium used to get X-ray contrast may not penetrate the diverticulum sufficiently. In the symptom-free stage of diverticulosis there may be dozens of small diverticula scattered along the colon...
John Giles Pierce, 19 next week, is a tall, husky youth with a yen to play with dynamite-or worse. Discharged from the Navy and also out on bond on a burglary indictment, he enrolled at Tyler Junior College. Aiming to be an X-ray technologist, he took practical lab work two hours a day at Mother Frances Hospital. In a back room at home he did such impractical work as making rockets that blew up ("The fuel was just too damn powerful," he explains...
Radiation Tab. Tracerlab, Inc. of Waltham, Mass, has developed the first film badge to record quarterly as well as weekly radiation readings from the more than 300,000 Americans (dentists, radiologists, X-ray technicians, etc.) whose work exposes them to radiation. Thirteen times more sensitive than present weekly film badges, Twin-film Service reduces the risk of overexposure...
...Nature two scientists from Glasgow's Royal College of Science and Technology report on an antler taken on the Island of Islay in 1957. It proved to have 126 micromicrocuries of strontium radioactivity per gram of calcium. A cross section cut from it and laid on X-ray film for 82 days gave off enough atomic radiation to take a sharp picture of itself. For contrast, an antler that grew in the same place in 1952, before the H-bomb tests, showed only 11.2 micromicrocuries of radioactivity...