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While most women in the U.S dis like the needle, some prefer it, and more do so in other countries. But for home use, Squibb hopes eventually to bring out a one-pill-a-month form...
Trade-named Deladroxate by E.R. Squibb & Sons, the experimental drug is a combination of female hormones, essentially the same as in the familiar pills. Two doctors reported that the injections appear to be 100% effective in suppressing ovulation. About 500 women are now getting the birth-control shots, and Squibb is planning a test to include up to 5,000 women...
...replacement for bone in 700,000 operations a year, surgeons will now have available a regular supply of calf bone, specially treated to remove all dangerous protein. E. R. Squibb & Sons this week announced the first U.S. Government approval of a sterilized calf bone, vacuum-packed, which can be stored at room temperature...
...Hour Flush. Working with the radiopharmaceutical division of E. R. Squibb & Sons, Dr. Taplin found what he wanted: human albumin, but in a special form made up of large molecules too big to pass through the lungs' blood filters, and laced with radioactive iodine. Dr. Taplin proved in dogs that these macro-molecules would jam up in the clot-closed arteries, stay there long enough to take their own picture on an X-ray plate, then break up into the normal, small-molecule form of albumin and pass into the bloodstream...
...respectable newspapers have science reporters now, but when Laurence's career began, such specialized journalists were rare. Good ones were rarer. Laurence not only reported science with exceptional competence but managed to be something of a scientist himself. A suggestion of his set Squibb Laboratories on the track that led to synthesis of the drug sulfadiazine. Another Laurence idea proposed a new avenue of cancer research. He was intrigued by the action of an antivitamin substance that apparently starved cancer cells, and so impressed was the American Association for the Advancement of Science that Laurence was asked to rewrite...