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...globulin, which holds undesirable side effects, such as fever and rash, to a minimum. The Public Health Service still must approve the new measles technique, establish manufacturing standards. If all goes well, a vaccine will be on the market next year, just as measles heads toward its next cyclical peak...
Already this year more than 50,000 cases of infectious hepatitis have been reported to the U.S. Public Health Service-more than double the number recorded a year ago, and more than the total for the entire record year of 1954. Breaking records before it even hits peak season in late fall, infectious hepatitis is mysteriously appearing and disappearing in city and hamlet, hopscotching the map in a manner that leaves epidemiologists at a loss for cogent explanation. Equally frustrated are the physicians who are trying to treat it, using gamma globulin to help prevent it. and ACTH and cortisone...
...disease, one of the most mysterious and disabling of common nervous disorders, is on the way out, according to two Boston authorities. Although the number of new cases reported in the U.S. has mounted steadily, to an estimated 34,000 last year, they believe this was about the peak. Now they expect the number to decline steadily, so that within 20 years, Parkinson's should cease to be a major medical problem, though a few new cases will still occur...
Never more popular than they are now, the pageant plays may nonetheless have hit some sort of peak in a single line in a production staged three years ago at Lake City, Colo. A long dead, excessively rocky mountaineer named Albert Packer was revived each night and retried for murder and cannibalism; with injudicious partiality, the judge glared vengefully at him and said: "There was seven Democrats in Hinsdale County, and you et five of them...
...pass, headed back out to sea to start another approach. "Cleared to descend to 1,400 feet." advised the Sola tower. There was no reply. Next morning, after an all-night sea and air search, the fire-gutted wreckage of "Papa Mike" was found by a farmer on the peak of 1,730-ft. Holte Heia mountain. Strewn across the mountain in their blazers were the charred bodies of Trevor Cowdell, John Wells. Reggie Chappie. Quentin Green. Alan Lee and all their schoolmates...