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Even the most universally useful anti-TB drug, isoniazid, is harmless only if the patient's enzyme system can break it down readily: if not, he is likely to develop a generalized neuritis, or even an acute form of rheumatism...
...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...
...fought harder against .TB than Florida's William T. Edwards, lay chairman of the state tuberculosis board. A businessman and onetime professional lobbyist for the late Albert I. Du Pont, Edwards spent much of the past 30 years lobbying for anti-TB measures. He wheedled some $30 million out of the legislature for four TB hospitals, plus millions more for other attacks on the disease. But last week Crusader Edwards, now 73, was accused by Florida's leading TB specialists of deliberately wrecking the program he had so laboriously set up. Their argument: Edwards cannot grasp just...
Next: Laos. Brotherhood doctors performed 5,023 major operations (including countless Caesareans) with a death rate of only 2.4% despite the primitive operating conditions and the shortage of plasma. With the nurses, they gave 721,370 medical treatments. Besides antimalarial and anti-TB drugs, they passed out truckloads of sulfas, and B 1 pills to guard against beriberi. They fought the threat of smallpox, typhoid and cholera epidemics. After the new arrivals' wounds were dressed, the most pressing problems remaining were the results of poor food and worse housing-or the lack of any. Said Brotherhood Chairman Oscar Alrenano...
Finally, there is the frightening fact that tubercle bacilli, by changing their nature, may learn to live with isoniazid, producing "resistant strains." But there is reason to believe that these can be kept to a minimum by giving isoniazid along with another anti-TB drug...