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...term used to describe drugs which usually require a doctor's prescription, as distinguished from proprietary drugs, such as cough remedies patent medicines, toothpaste, etc., which are sold over the counter...
...prances up to the mike, Rosemary drops her cough drop into her palm, makes a moue at the control room and opens her mouth. If the tune has a bounce, her slim Irish face lights up and her trim, spring-legged figure jigs happily; her smile can be heard as well as seen. If the words are sad, her face takes on a little-girl-lost look. The moment her stint at the mike is through, she pops her candy back in her mouth, swigs at a bottle of Coke...
...village elders of Marsella, 6,300 feet up in Colombia's Cauca Valley, weighed the arguments and gave consent -yes, it would be a good idea to give the district's youngsters inoculations against whooping cough and diphtheria. Thereupon, the traveling "sanitary educator," Roberto Agudelo Valencia, 32, jumped into his jeep, switched on the public-address system and drove around announcing a movie in the village square...
Another index is in the disease rates. Whooping cough has been reduced by 90% to 95% in cities where the program was started two years ago, and diphtheria has been cut by 65% to 70%. Nobody knows how many children's lives have been or can be saved, because Colombia's vital statistics are too sketchy. But where something like one-sixth of all children have been dying before the age of five, there is plenty of room for lifesaving...
...variety of diseases from yaws to kwashiorkor). It is a prime example of a technically backward country's being helped to help itself. UNICEF out up $100,000 and arranged for Michigan's Dr. Pearl Kendrick, the world's top authority on vaccines for whooping cough, to help Colombia set up a laboratory. To get the program started, 80,000 shots were supplied from U.S. labs. Now, the technically difficult process is done entirely in the Bogota lab, which will turn out all the vaccine needed in 1953. Colombia has put up $102,800 for the campaign...