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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...
These changes should cure the schizophrenia in the relation between the HSA and the University...
This kind of meningitis used to be fatal in 70% of cases. But now the Navy doctors had no need to panic. It was at this same San Diego base 20 years ago that sulfa drugs had proved an almost sure cure for meningococcal meningitis and, no less important, a superb preventive. Wilkowski, severely ill, had to have sulfadiazine intravenously, so he got penicillin as well. All 80 men in his company were ordered to take sulfadiazine tablets twice a day for three days...
...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...