Word: bierman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...City of Hope's leukemia unit comprises 32 beds, an outpatient department and scattered laboratories, where its chief, Dr. Howard Richard Bierman, and a team of a dozen assistants carry on treatment and research. New Jersey-born, St. Louis-trained Dr. Bierman is already a veteran (at 39) of investigation into blood cells, and something of a maverick among leukemia specialists...
...Control? For almost a century after Berlin's Dr. Rudolf Virchow named leukemia ("white blood") and de scribed it as a proliferation of the white cells, little more was learned about it. Most researchers have tried to find out where the white cells come from, and why. Dr. Bierman thinks this is only one part of the picture, and probably not the most important, because in some forms of leukemia, it is now known, there is no excess of white cells...
Treatment, Dr. Bierman insists, must take into account not only the apparent overproduction of white cells, but the whole cycle of production, delivery, removal and destruction. White cells normally live only two to four days. But in some leukemia victims, he has found, the cells may live as long as 100 days. This, in what Bierman calls his "balance hypothesis," means principally that removal and destruction are slowing down somewhere. The phenomenon of overproduction of the white cells may often be an illusion (some normal people manufacture many more white cells than leukemics without suffering ill effects...
Last night, Whitney had not registered at any of the Minneapolis hotels or clubs. The Minneapolis Star Tribune reported him in town this morning and it was possible that he was staying with John Cowles '21, but as of midnight (CST) he had not contacted Bierman, in bed with a head cold...
...University of Minnesota yesterday announced the appointment of Wes Fesler as head football coach. Fesler, who resigned this winter at Ohio State, replaces the retiring Minnesota coach, Bernie Bierman...