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...report to WHO's annual meeting said the organization needed at least that amount to find and cure cases of the disease in Somalia, where a form of smallpox still lingers...
...worth of goods yearly. Its powers have grown steadily ever since the agency was founded in 1907 under crusading Pure-Food Advocate Harvey Wiley, chief chemist of the Department of Agriculture. In 1938, after 107 people died from use of a sulfanilamide preparation that was supposed to be a cure-all for diseases like strep throat, Congress passed a strengthened Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, providing the cornerstone for the FDA's current powers to enforce health, purity and labeling regulations...
Henry Kissinger once complained that the Pentagon was crediting its long-range cruise missile with being a cure for everything but the common cold. It may not be the ultimate doomsday weapon, but this armed drone, which looks a bit like a stunted jet plane, promises to become one of the most versatile weapons in the U.S. arsenal-and the Russians have good reason to be impressed...
Radiologists emphasize that implants are no sure cure for cancer of the breast or any other form of the disease -especially if it is detected late. But their experience suggests that the treatment is often just as effective as a mastectomy. For example, Dr. Nisar Syed, who has been doing implants at the Los Angeles County-University of Southern California Medical Center since 1973, says that a year or more after their treatment, 23 out of 24 patients showed no recurrence of breast cancer. In France, where he has treated some 500 women with iridium implants since 1961, Dr. Bernard...
Some surgeons contend that there is a possibility, admittedly slight, that the radiation itself could cause future cancer. They argue, as the British Medical Journal recently said, that "cure is more important than contour." Yet Pierquin insists that for certain women between the ages of 40 and 50, there are particularly important aesthetic and psychological reasons for choosing radiation implants. As he explains it: "This is when the woman knows she is growing older and starting to lose her femininity, her power for seduction. The fact that she might undergo mutilation at this stage can be a catastrophe...