Word: anemia
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...sympathy for real insight. The film also blunts some of the drama's edges (e.g., the seduction of the college student) because of the requirements of screen censorship. But the movie remains a generally honest and affecting examination of a marriage dying piecemeal from a sort of emotional anemia. The picture is at its best when it owes least to the stage play-in James Wong Howe's evocatively drab photography, and in such scenes of slack and silence as when Lola stands entranced at the kitchen door watching Terry and her athlete boy friend...
...that gamma globulin (TIME, Nov. 3) can be processed in readiness for next year's polio epidemics. The goal: 5,000,000 pints ¶Doctors of the Food & Drug Administration, spurred by last summer's scare about Chloromycetin, checked 539 cases of blood disorders, such as aplastic anemia, which might have been caused by drugs. In. 55, they found, Chloromycetin was used alone, and in 143 with other drugs, but in 341 cases other drugs or no drugs had been used. Their conclusion: doctors should watch more carefully for ill effects of all drugs. ¶For his work...
Vice Admiral C. Turner Joy, Superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy and former U.N. truce negotiator in Korea, entered Bethesda Naval Hospital with a serious case of virus pneumonia complicated by anemia. At week's end his condition was reported "satisfactory...
Danger on the Side. Primaquine has one peculiarity: it is much safer for white patients than others; Negroes and many Asiatics may develop a form of anemia after relatively small doses. Also, it has to be given in several doses, so it is not the ideal drug for such a vast area of relapsing malaria as India...
After a quick and thorough check by topnotch authorities, the Food & Drug Administration gave its verdict last week. Chloromycetin was connected with the deaths of at least 72 aplastic anemia victims. However, there are "serious and sometimes fatal diseases in which its use is necessary," the FDA decided; therefore, doctors may still use it. But the manufacturers, Parke, Davis & Co., must warn doctors on the leaflet packed with every bottle that studies of the patient's blood are essential if Chloromycetin is given for a long time. Further. "Chloromycetin should not be used indiscriminately or for minor infections...