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...doctor's recommendation, paid-up members will be admitted to any Saskatchewan hospital ward for at least 21 days, and will get free meals, drugs, X rays and blood tests. The Government will pay the hospital $4.50 a day for ward patients, or the same amount toward the cost of a private room...
...Public Health Service, immunization has laid diphtheria low. Better sanitation (including fewer flies because of fewer horses) has knocked intestinal infections, such as diarrhea and enteritis, off the top list. Sulfa drugs and penicillin have taken the edge off pneumonia. Tuberculosis has yielded somewhat to better treatment and early X-ray diagnosis. To take their places, non-germ diseases have moved up. Last year's list: 1) heart disease; 2) cancer; 3) cerebral hemorrhage; 4) nephritis; 5) pneumonia and influenza; 6) accidents (except motor vehicle); 7) tuberculosis; 8) diabetes; 9) premature birth; 10) motor vehicle accidents...
Voice Change. In Knoxville, doctors X-rayed four-year-old Phyllis Dean's throat, spotted the nickel she had swallowed, operated, pulled...
...getting the least study. Some points: ¶ Gastric cancer gives no early warning, is usually unsuspected until too late. ¶By the time they get to a doctor, only 8% of stomach-cancer victims can be successfully treated, 25% are beyond all help. ¶The best protection is frequent X-ray examination of every citizen to detect cancers early, but the handful of U.S. cancer clinics already have six-month examination waiting lists...
Soon other cases turned up. Friedman treated them with the hospital's 1,000,000-volt X-ray machine, "Big Bertha," found that he could arrest their cancers if he adjusted the X-ray dose to the contents of the tumor, i.e., one dose for bone, another for lung, etc. All told, he treated 256 G.I.s with cancer of the testes, got a high percentage of improvement...