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Polio publicity has made polio research dollar-rich, while other less dramatized diseases are dime-poor. In spite of research, however, there is no known way to prevent polio nor to cure it. Addressing the First International Poliomyelitis Conference in Manhattan last week, Dr. Hart E. Van Riper, medical director of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, said: "We may be fighting not one disease, but a whole family of slightly related diseases. We do know already that there are several strains of infantile paralysis capable of producing clinical symptoms, but we do not know how closely related these virus...
Syphilis & the Common Cold. In research, P.H.S. has chalked up a notable list of firsts. Among them: discovery (1914) of the cause, cure and prevention of pellagra; identification (1925) of brucellosis (undulant fever); first use (1942) of continuous caudal anesthesia in childbirth; proof (1943) of the effectiveness of penicillin in the treatment of syphilis; demonstration (1941) that fluorides reduce tooth decay; isolation (1947) of one of the agents causing the common cold...
...worth while trying to cure alcoholics? At least 60% of U.S. doctors don't bother (TIME, Jan. 20, 1947). Some psychiatrists are more hopeful. They think that most alcoholics can be cured if both doctors and patients try hard; alcoholics, they think, are apt to be sensitive people, well worth saving...
After the surging crowds, the loud music, the furious trading and the boastful oratory of the Republican Convention, Philadelphia seemed almost shockingly quiet. The Democrats had not come to town to stage a war dance, but to seek a cure. Their quarrels were concerned with the efficacy of political liver pills, and they looked at each other with the doleful gaze of incoming patients in a hospital...
Typhoid fever is usually easy to prevent-thanks to modern sanitation and vaccination. But once the disease takes hold, doctors have had no specific cure. But a medical "mistake" in Malaya now offers hope...