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...test got its start ten years ago when Dr. Harry S. Penn of the University of California at Los Angeles extracted a substance from the liver of victims killed by cancer. The substance usually had no effect on blood samples from healthy persons, but it left a precipitate in samples from patients with cancer or some other diseases. The biggest trouble was that the liver fractions Dr. Penn obtained were too variable, and other medical men could not duplicate his results. Then a team of U.C.L.A. researchers joined Dr. Penn, broadened the attack and succeeded in making from bile acid...
Died. Crown Princess Martha of Norway, 53, wife of Crown Prince Olaf, daughter of Sweden's late Prince Carl and frequent White House guest while a refugee from Nazi-occupied Norway in World War II; of a liver ailment; in Oslo...
...their colleagues tried the combination on human patients, and ran into a snag of which animal tests had given no warning. Six patients out of 60 suffered liver damage, in some cases severe, and one died. At a Veterans Administration TB conference in St. Louis, the researchers sadly reported: this prescription is great for mice...
...major war. "Infectious jaundice" (as it was commonly called from its most obvious symptom) was regarded as a disease of wartime camps with poor sanitation; peacetime outbreaks were relatively few and usually limited to overcrowded institutions such as orphanages, mental hospitals and prisons. Today, inflammation of the liver as a result of invasion by a virus is becoming a major health problem in the workaday, peacetime...
...more months to develop (three times as long as the infectious variety), are the most obvious differences. Both kinds of hepatitis make the patient equally miserable, causing headache, fever, nausea and loss of appetite. In most cases, jaundice appears. Though hepatitis is rarely fatal, it may cause severe liver damage...