Medical School Finds Heart Disease Relief

Twenty-two sufferers of the heart disease angina pectoris have received relief from a radioactive iodine treatment developed by Dr. Herman L. Rlumgart 17, Dr. A. Stone Freedberg '29, and Dr. George S. Kurland '40 of the Medical School.

The doctors emphasize that their method is not a cure, but merely a means of enabling the afflicted persons to lead more normal lives.

Radioactive fading, explain the doctors, slows down the tempo of the body by reducing the amount of thyroxin secreted from the thyroid gland. The work load on the heart is thus reduced.

Final evaluation of this kind of therapy however, must await prolonged study, they cautioned.