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Hinton, a bacteriologist and immunologist, devised the widely-used Hinton text for syphilis and taught Harvard medical students for 1918 until his retirement...
...search for a cancer vaccine has largely been a painstaking, systematic chore of isolating some agent that might produce cancer-killing antibodies in human patients. Last week Swedish Immunologist Dr. Bertil Bjorklund announced that he was taking a shortcut. Rather than waiting for time-consuming analysis, he will inoculate humans with a complex substance that has produced favorable cancer antibody responses using rabbits and horses. Over a seven-month period. Bjorklund vaccine will be injected into 100 Swedish volunteers between 60 and 70, an age group of high cancer incidence. At the end of the year, if the volunteers show...
...Should everyone be immunized against lockjaw? Yes, answers Immunologist Dr. Geoffrey Edsall of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, in a report to the A.M.A.'s Council on Drugs. Only 25% of the population has been immunized, yet the tetanus bacillus is present in many open wounds; thus the disease is a clear threat (an average 325 deaths a year) to anyone. The tetanus immunization shot, says Dr. Edsall, is not only one of the safest toxoids known to man, it is also among the most effective: the U.S. Army's tetanus rate...
...Boston spawned a new disease in 1951, doctors there concluded after studying reports of 2,450 cases. Still unnamed, it is mild and so like German measles that only an immunologist could tell them apart. It usually attacks children, gives them a red rash, sore throat, muscle aches, and a short-lived fever of 102° F. Now that doctors know what to look for, they will probably find it outside Boston...
...Rolla Dyer, Institute director, said last week that research would continue for at least five years. First year's budget: $50,000. The research team, still unselected: a medical officer who is an immunologist, a researcher experienced in handling viruses, an epidemiologist, possibly a biochemist. As a start, the team would attack the problem by isolating a cold virus, "or a bunch of viruses from a bunch of colds." Next step: development of an immunizing vaccine...