Word: cured
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Industrial leaders have barraged Washington with the claim that prices must rise to stimulate a "flood of production." This is a mere smokescreen of words thrown out by the highly-geared propaganda agency of the National Association of Manufacturers. Higher prices will not cure the labor and material shortages that set the limits of production today. Only reconversion time and labor-management peace can bring greater production. It was not the OPA, nor is it the Wagner Act, which is in need of revision. The revision of statutes most necessary now are revisions based on the recognition that millions...
...Doctors are making no headway against gonorrhea. One reason: the easy cure makes people careless about exposure...
...pulling. Last week doctors of the U.S. Public Health Service had cheering news: scalping, they reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association, may be unnecessary. In a wide test in Hagerstown, Md. they had discovered that an ointment rubbed on the head can cure scalp ringworm...
...Part Cure. The Lexington cure is two-part: 1) withdrawal of the drug, accomplished in three days, during which the patient's agony is mitigated by less harmful dope; 2) the psychological phase -finding out what caused the patient to go on the hop, and removing the cause. If phase No. 2 is not successfully completed, relapse is almost certain (29% of Lexington's present patients are repeaters). Volunteers may leave whenever they choose, but are told that if they leave before six months, they have wasted their time...
Streptomycin, an antibiotic containing a germ-killing soil organism called Actinomyces griseus, is especially effective against certain deadly "gram-negative" infections for which there was no known cure. It does the job in many a case where penicillin and the sulfa drugs fail. But it is expensive: about $16 a gram (average treatment: six to ten grams). Since the drug's discovery in 1944 by Rutgers' Microbiologist Selman A. Waksman, it has been tested against a wide variety of diseases by a National Research Council committee headed by Boston's Dr. Chester S. Keefer. Their report...