RT Journal
T1 MEdical news
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1919
FD April 19
VO 72
IS 16
SP 1169
OP 1174
DO 10.1001/jama.1919.02610160053018
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1919.02610160053018
AB (Physicians will confer a favor by sending for this department items of news of more or less general interest: such as relate to society activities, new hospitals, education, public health, etc.)CALIFORNIA 
    Radium and Oncologic Institute. 
    —Through the interest of Mr. King C. Gillette, the Radium and Oncologic Institute has been established in Los Angeles, and a fireproof building, to cost about $65,000, is now under construction. The building will contain laboratories for clinical research work, and has a modern and complete roentgen-ray equipment and more than 1 gm. of radium with the necessary emanation apparatus and appliances. The institution will afford, for a fee consistent with the financial condition of the patient, treatment of neoplastic diseases. Profits earned above those required for the expense and maintenance of the institution will be devoted to scientific and research work. Dr. Rex D. Duncan, Los Angeles, has been selected as medical director