Newsweek (Nobel Prize)

Date:
1962
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PP/CRI/I/2/1
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    5th TOKYO FAIR Let's go to the Fair ! The 5th Tokyo International Trade Fair from April 16 through May 6, 1963, will be the largest yet. Playing an essential role in promoting trade between Japan and other nations, it will attract thousands of buyers and visitors to the huge Harumi Pier fair grounds 10 minutes from downtown Tokyo. Contracts with a total value of US$ 59,453,650 were signed at the last Fair and this figure can be ex pected to be considerably increased. A total of 6,500 booths will be de voted to the latest producer and consumer goods from many lands. Quality Japanese products and foreign goods previously restricted by the Foreign Control Law will be special features. Make your plans now to take part. $ APRIL 16-MAY 6, 1963 Tokyo International Trade Fair Commission C.P.O. Box 1201, Tokyo, Japan 5th TOKYO FAIR FAST FACTUAL FAIR THE SAIT AMA BANK, LTD. MEDICINE serum which impairs or prevents the growth of tumors in experimental ani mals. More suggestively, Dr. McLaughlin told the surgeons, cancer patients seem' to suffer from a deficiency of the mys terious substance. Not only do cancer patients have con siderably smaller amounts of MF-10 in their blood than healthy volunteers or persons with other diseases, but this is true even of'patients whose tumors had been removed years previously. This indicates, Dr. McLaughlin said, the deficiency seems to be inherent in the cancer patient, and is not a result of the tumor. Only much further research, Dr. Mc Laughlin adds, will determine whether MF-10 is useful in the actual treatment of cancer. In laboratory studies rats and mice were inoculated with MF-10 and then injected with tumor cells. For the most part, animals receiving MF-10 de veloped fewer cancers than did un treated controls. Furthermore, treated animals that did develop full-blown tumors lived longer than the untreated. Dr. McLaughlin's report was one of more than 250 research presentations at the meeting. Among others heard by the 11,000 doctors in Atlantic City: ►Heart Surgery—Dr. Arthur Vineberg of Montreal's McGill University described an ingenious operation to bring nourish ing blood to hearts starved by advanced coronary artery disease. The Canadian surgeon opens the pericardium—the en velope encasing the heart—and strips away the epicardium, the heart's outer layer. Then he covers the entire surface of the organ with strips of plastic sponge and closes the pericardium. Eventually, small blood vessels from the pericardium grow through the sponge, Dr. Vineberg said, and infiltrate the heart muscle, creating a new blood supply. Dr. Vine berg said the operation has restored 25 of 34 cardiac cripples to active life. One former patient, he noted, became so active that he entered a street brawl and was murdered. ►Ovulation—Basic research on the physi ology of the ovary has suggested the possibility that oral contraceptives may prolong a woman's child-bearing years into her 60s and 70s. Dr. C.A. Douglas Ringrose of Canada's Royal Alberta Hospital in Edmonton studied 75 ovaries removed from females at various ages. Microscopic inspection, he said, indi cated that each ovum released is re placed by a bit of fibrous tissue. Accumu lation of such tissue, which impedes the production of female hormones, seems to be directly related to the onset of menopause. Since Enovid and similar oral contraceptives prevent ovulation, Dr. Ringrose reasons, they might also keep the ovaries from aging. If so, the Canadian surgeon said, a new specialty —geriatric obstetrics—may be created. ►Burns—It may be wiser to stick a burned finger under the cold-water tap than smear it with grease', according to ex perimental evidence presented by Drs. T.C. King of the University of Kansas School of Medicine and José M. Ferrer of Columbia University's College of Phy sicians and Surgeons. Anesthetized ex perimental animals which were scalded, then plunged into water at 10 to 15 degrees Centigrade suffered less exten sive injury and made more rapid recov ery than animals not subjected to chilling. Fevered Ear The family doctor has always con sidered the rectal thermometer quite accurate, but in the field of space travel something which measures temperature changes faster and more accurately has been needed. Dr. Theodor Benzinger of the Naval Medical Research Institute has now developed just such a device. Inserted into the ear, his tympanic ther mometer instantly records responses to heat and cold within one-hundredth of one degree. Temperatures measured by his method, says Dr. Benzinger, rise sharply as an experimental subject en ters a warm bath. Thé rectal tempera ture reaches a peak only after he has left the bath. Already tested by the seven original astronauts, the ear ther mometer will be marketed soon by Aero- Med Electronics, Inc., of Washington, D.C., for $30. If demand is great, the firm said, it hopes to reduce the price to $6. 42 Newsweek