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...white vaginal discharge, leucorrhea, is sometimes caused by infection with bacteria, and when it is, the familiar wonder drugs will usually cure it. But the most common cause is a tiny parasite, the protozoan Trichomonas vaginalis, against which medicine has had no effective defense. Of 50 or more remedies listed in doctors' reference books, all must be used locally. Flagyl (chemical name: metronidazole), synthesized by France's Rhône-Poulenc laboratories, is the first effective trichomonacide taken by mouth; it gets into the bloodstream and can track down the parasites in internal glands where some of them...
...more than four years since French doctors began reporting Flagyl cure rates as high as 100% in patients of both sexes. Chicago's G. D. Searle & Co., U.S. licensee for Flagyl, has supplied it for "investigational use only" to 750 doctors, who have treated almost 50,000 patients. U.S. investigators are as enthusiastic about Flagyl as their colleagues in France, Britain and Canada. Last week the A.M.A.'s Council on Drugs, which has never endorsed a drug not yet licensed by FDA, reported favorably on Flagyl, suggesting simply that "it should not be administered to women during...
Teen culture embraces all generations in Pasadena, and Novelist Carter's hero shows how painless is the cure for a small case of doubt in the full, rich, empty life. He is Decker Wells, 6 ft. 3 in. tall, a high school senior about to become a freshman at U.C.L.A.. where his major will be "kind of general, maybe I'll end up in business administration." With his fellows he stands "in a lump," distinguishable only by name, weight, hair coloring, and small variables within high-bracket Pasadena youth society...
These changes should cure the schizophrenia in the relation between the HSA and the University...
...recognized by the Roman Catholic Church. The U.S., the nation with the world's second largest Catholic population (after Brazil), has none,* but one is in the making. This week in Rome, following Vatican approval of two miracles attributed to her intervention with God-one a medically inexplicable cure of cancer, the other a recovery from leukemia-Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton, founder of the American branch of the worldwide order known as the Daughters of Charity, was enrolled among the beatified of the church. Attending the formal ceremonies at St. Peter's were more than 3,000 American...