Duke scientist finds easy test for tiny tumor causing high blood pressure
Durham AP report describes Dr J Caulie Gunnells of Duke Medical Center perfecting a blood test that measures renin activity to locate a tiny adrenal tumor responsible for about 20 percent of hypertension. In trials with 60 patients, 11 showed the tumor. surgically removing the adrenal nodule adjusted blood pressure to normal, offering many a drug free life. The work builds on Jerome W. Conn’s aldosterone findings and could return up to 2 million people to normal health.
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Durham
Duke
United States
J. Caulie Gunnells
Jerome W. Conn
University of Michigan
Navy
Gunnells
Conn
Gantiells
Gunnetts
Duke Medical Center
DeWitt Gaines
Merrittstown
Gaines
1St Clase Gaines
Naval
UCC Leader to Visit Danville Cancer Group
David R. Scott, executive director of the United Cancer Council, will visit Danville to meet with the Danville Cancer Association board and volunteers. Scott will discuss local programming and address challenges facing member agencies as the UCC expands nationwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
UCC
David R. Scott
United Cancer Council
Danville
Danville Cancer Association
Virginia
Scott
Waverly H. Cousins
William J. Guste, Jr
The
Cancer Association of Greater New Orleans, Inc
Guste
United Fund
Kent Named Fund Raiser For College
J Elwood Kent Jr of Dan lyre has accepted appointment as campaign director for Monmouth College fundraising programs. After 16 months in Blacksburg where he earned an MS in business administration at VPI in June 1965 he will move with his wife Martha Patterson and two daughters to Monmouth on August 1, leaving as his parents Mr and Mrs J E Kent of 123 Canterbury Rd.
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J. Elwood Kent, Jr
Danlyre
Monymouth College
Monmouth
Kent
Blacksburg
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
VPI
Chicago
Martha Patterson
Danville
J. E. Kent
Canterbury Rd
Danville Firm Produces Combat Trousers for Troops
Danville’s Anderson Brothers Consolidated Companies on Floyd street will begin producing combat trousers for Viet Nam with a $141,680 contract to deliver 3,000 pairs in September and 5,000 more monthly thereafter for a total of 23,000. The design includes survival pockets and multiple pockets, uses buttons not zippers, and requires 30 pattern pieces and over 40 operations per garment.
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Anderson Brothers Consolidated Companies
Floyd Street
Viet Nam
Anderson
William Worton
Philadelphia
Scholarship Granted To Louis Noell Jr
Louis L Noell Jr has been awarded a $500 Wake Forest College scholarship in Winston Salem NC He is a June graduate of Dan River High School He plans to enter mathematics after college The UCC executive committee met in New York City for the fourth annual Council meeting September 18 20 The Danville organization will be represented at the session Also noted were visits to Bristol Tenn Greenville Greenwood Rock Hill DC Winston Salem NC and Halifax and Norfolk.
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Louis L. Noell, Jr
Wake Fores College
Winston- Salem
N.c
Noell
Mary Lane
Dan River High School
UCC
New York City
Danville
New York
Scott
Bristol
Tenn
Greenville
Greenwood
Rock Hill
D.C
Halifax
Norfolk
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Understanding Media
McLuhan Valley OF the Dolls
Harold Robbins
Looking Glass War
le Carre Hotel
Arthur Hailey
Dr. X
Benyunes Music CO
Union St
Vege
REX Southern Dept
Ballo Fark
Jamaicas
Silhouette
Union
David R. Scutt
J. Elwood Kent, Jk
Louis Noell, Jr
General Electric Appliances
Frost
Reiserter
Freezer Space
Thinette
Hardware Corp
Main St
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