Word: antibioticized
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Carney Love was 42, a slight and pretty woman, with two grown children and a record of generally good health; it was nothing more than bleeding gums from a recent tooth extraction that led her doctor, John Wolf of Redding, Calif., to give her the potent antibiotic Chloromycetin. She got...
Antibiotics effectively attack most bacteria, but in fighting disease-causing pests that are smaller than bacteria-chiefly the viruses-the wonder drugs have chalked up a record of failure. Last week, concluding a series of three articles in the A.M.A. Journal, a group of Navy doctors reported on an antibiotic...
Temporary relief can be stretched a long way. Dr. Karnofsky cited the case of a patient with cancer of the large bowel. A colostomy relieved an intestinal obstruction. A recurrence of cancer nearby was relieved by X-ray treatment. When the abdominal cavity began to fill with fluid, radioactive phosphorus...
The running battle that has raged for the past three years between the Government and the U.S. drug industry was shifted last week to the courts. Charging conspiracy to fix prices and limit competition, the Justice Department won a grand jury antitrust indictment against three of the nation's...
The antibiotics cited in the Justice Department suit are aureomycin, terramycin' and tetracycline-three broad-spectrum antibiotics, so called because, unlike narrow-spectrum penicillin, they treat a wide variety of diseases. Until 1953, according to Government charges, Cyanamid's aureomycin and Pfizer's terramycin accounted for 92...