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Although doctors in last-ditch starvation cases have resorted to synthesized remedies (amino acids, concentrated vitamins, blood plasma), the best cure for malnutrition is food, and plenty of it.* A build-up diet of simple foods such as cereals, cabbage, and potatoes ( most likely to be available after near-famine) will do the trick if the daily caloric rate attains or exceeds 4,000. Even then, the road back is long...
After spending four years and $7,000,000, OSRD researchers half-hoped, half-believed that they had found a permanent cure for relapsing malaria (which plagues almost half the world's population). Its name: SN 13,276. Last week in Atlantic City, Squibb Institute's Dr. James A. Shannon released some promising facts about this newest member of the eight-aminoquinoline group (to which belongs Plasmochin, antimalarial drug developed by German scientists in 1926, later discarded as ineffective and too toxic...
Although sanguine about the new cure, Shannon had two reservations: 1) its toxicity, which may cause anemia (probably only in dark-skinned races), has not yet been determined; 2) SN 13,276 has been tried out on less than a hundred patients, may pan out poorly in large-scale tests...
Many doctors have diagnosed radio's ills; few have prescribed a cure. Last week, educator and critic Charles Arthur Siepmann (TIME, Oct. 6, 1941) readied a remedy. In a 276-page book (Radio's Second Chance; Little, Brown; $2.50), he told radio how it could get well if it only half tried...
Professor Siepmann's brew was one cure-all that was not likely to get a radio sponsor...