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...done with radio-phosphorus. Hevesy and others have found that phosphorus turnover (metabolism) is slowest in the brain, somewhat faster in muscles and other organs, fastest in bones (which use 75% of the body's phosphorus). Since 1938 doctors have been using radio-phosphorus instead of radium or X-ray exposure in the treatment of leukemia, a mysterious cancerlike disease of the blood and blood-forming tissue such as bone marrow. This is the first therapeutic application resulting from tracer studies with radioelements...
...sickened, by last week was having convulsions. One day police sirens screamed from The Bronx to Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center ahead of a zoo station wagon. Pandora, quieted by nembutal, was lifted in a stretcher, borne into the famed Neurological Institute, whisked to the tenth-floor X-ray room...
...Regular X-ray plates are the best way of detecting t.b. But the Army is not even using the new paper film X-rays, which, although not so accurate, cost half as much. These films are used all over the country to examine large crowds of people in a short time...
...Portable X-ray equipment which can be set up on a battlefield in ten minutes to locate bullets and shell fragments in wounded soldiers. Westinghouse is building these machines for the U. S. Army...
...rights, the film should just be a dated straggler on the U. S. screen. Yet Director Julien Duvivier's camera has caught such an accurate X-ray of a tortured mind, it deserves a gold star on any list. Pépé (Jean Gabin) is a jaunty Parisian jewel thief driven to bay in the Casbah, filthy, crowded native quarter of Algiers. There, like a stallion in a pasture of geldings, he rules the thieves and cutthroats, lives with a devoted but depressing native girl (Line Noro), dreams of the bright life of Paris. The decay...