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Research physicians from a dozen U.S. medical centers reporting on their studies with more than 500 patients expressed hope that kanamycin will also prove effective against many urinary-tract infections (common, stubborn and dangerous), and against tuberculosis-though precise assay of its usefulness against TB will take years. Also offered was evidence that kanamycin (released for general prescription last month, trade-named Kantrex by Bristol Laboratories) may prolong life and ease pain in cirrhosis of the liver...
...Bacillus of Calmette and Guéerin (TIME, Sept. 23). Nearest approach to a consensus is that BCG is not to be recommended for people enjoying high standards of sanitation and health, but may be good for those with low resistance, living in overcrowded conditions, and those exposed to TB victims. Now the results of a long-term experiment show how effective the vaccine can be. In the Archives of Internal Medicine, three University of Pennsylvania researchers report striking benefits among American Indians who got BCG as children. Of 3,000 youngsters in the study, half were vaccinated...
Carroll did not say anything to the' Hulls about TB, though state law requires drugless-healers to report such cases to public health officials. Instead, he prescribed hot and cold compresses to increase her absorption of water. Though Mrs. Hull had weighed only 108 Ibs. and continued to lose, Carroll did not keep track of her weight. She went on ten-day fasts, during which she took nothing but water. Five months later, Doris Hull died of starvation and tuberculosis. She weighed...
...this testimony in Paul Hull's suit against Carroll, a Spokane jury last week awarded him $35,823 for his wife's death, $2,000 because both he and their daughter, 2, contracted TB from...
...requests dealing with projects on the unmarked frontiers of a dozen medical sciences, Van Slyke has organized specialists in each field into study councils to make recommendations. Most of the time, Van Slyke and his advisers were right in their choice of projects to back, notably research with anti-TB drugs, the momentous blood-fractionation work of Harvard's late Edwin J. Cohn (TIME, Sept. 12, 1953), various artificial heart, lung and kidney machines, basic studies seeking better understanding and treatment of heart disease. Ironically, Dr. Van Slyke could not attend last week's Lasker Awards luncheon...