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...inadequate protective measures. While a few carriers such as Eastern, TWA and American are making serious attempts to maintain effective surveillance and deterrent devices, others are deliberately dogging it to try and force the Federal Government into picking up the tab for airline security (e.g., magnetometers, sky marshals, X-ray equipment). FAA officials and the pilots are becoming more fed up by the day. Said Captain Al Bonner, vice president of the Air Line Pilots Association, which recently called a 24-hour protest strike: "The public, we feel, should stand up with us by refusing to fly on airlines that...
...combination treatments. Leukemia, a cancer of the blood that kills 2,000 children under the age of 15 in the U.S. each year, has been found to respond to a double-barreled approach. One phase uses cytotoxic (cell-destroying) drugs to combat the cancer itself" the other consists of X-ray treatment of the head and spinal column to prevent involvement of the nervous system a frequent and fatal complication of the disease. Dr. Joseph Simone of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis told an American Cancer Society/National Cancer Institute meeting in New York that this dual...
...controlled experiment by a second research team has provided still more proof. Dr. Calvin Rumbaugh of the hospital's radiology department had already examined 19 patients by cerebral angiography, an X-ray technique in which a dye is injected into the brain's arteries to enable doctors to follow its path through the smaller blood vessels. The tests showed most of the patients to be suffering from occlusion, or blockage, of the small arteries. To determine whether speed could cause such damage, Rumbaugh and his team injected five rhesus monkeys with methamphetamine every other day for two weeks...
Exceptional Accuracy. Developed at a cost of $5,000,000, it uses conventional X-ray equipment to photograph the breast. The difference is in the developing. Instead of X-ray film, the xero-radiograph uses a selenium plate that has been specially treated to make it sensitive to X rays. Once exposed, the plate is inserted into a processor similar to an office copier, where it is "developed" electronically. The result is an exceptionally accurate Xerox "picture" of the breast, its internal tissues and any cancer that might be present...
...team of British researchers has reported in the Lancet that ten habitual marijuana users were found to be suffering from cerebral atrophy, or irreversible shrinkage of the brain tissue. The patients, all between 18 and 28, were under treatment for various neurological symptoms and drug abuse. Using a special X-ray technique to measure the volume of the patient's brain tissue, the physicians found all ten to have significant atrophy, a condition frequently found in the elderly, people with degenerative nerve disease and those with histories of severe head injury. Because all the patients had also taken other...