Word: bcg
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Japan, tuberculosis researchers have developed a form of BCG vaccine that resists tropical heat. In a major test in Madras, WHO teams are treating TB victims with isoniazid (TIME, March 2, 1962) and are searching for another, equally inexpensive drug to combine with isoniazid to keep down resistant bacilli...
...countless victims of heart attacks are ruefully aware, the ECG gives no indication of early coronary disease or danger of an imminent attack. The BCG does, its proponents claim: the artery narrowings of atherosclerosis, such as those involving cholesterol deposits, which lead to attacks, show up in measurements the heart's blood output. But the BCG cannot become a standard item in physical checkups until the newer instruments (there are several models by different makers) have been thoroughly tested...