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Broken Cycle. Dr. Kessel's most potent weapon was the drug diethylcarbamazine (Lederle Laboratories' Hetrazan). It does not kill all the adult worms or directly cure a full-blown case of filariasis, but it prevents reinfection by killing the wormlets in their early, vulnerable phase...
Died. Dr. Conrad Arnold Elvehjem, 61, president for six years of the University of Wisconsin and biochemist whose identification of nicotinic acid as a new vitamin (now called niacin) led directly to the cure of pellagra, and who won medicine's Lasker Award in 1952; of a heart attack; in Madison...
...isolation block is trilling, and convicts who get bored with their pets give them to Stroud to keep. With painstaking perfectionism, he fashions cages out of packing crates. A septic fever epidemic decimates his aviary. He pores over biology books, concocts trial-and-error medicines until he discovers a cure. With the help of a bird-loving widow (Betty Field), he markets the medicines...
...series of financial crises culminated last summer in a massive, sustained flight from the pound that at its peak pumped up to $1.4 billion a month out of Britain. The government stanched the flow with heavy loans and anti-inflationary wage curbs (the "pay pause"), but the only permanent cure, economists decided, was to boost
...following notes, and they are intended to help you get to know the city, and to encourage you to explore it for yourself. Cambridge has its charms, but tends to dullness during the summer months. The world that lies (in ruins) across the Charles River provides the perfect cure for the ennui of Harvard Square...