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Ukrainian Contribution. Russia's growing community of pragmatic, highly professional economists and engineers understands very clearly what has happened, and is sure that it has the cure-even if much of it has to be borrowed from the capitalists. Among the foremost is Kharkov Economics Professor Evsei Liberman, 67, whose quizzical smile masks an imperious and demanding intelligence, and who as much as any other Russian is credited by the West with initiating Russia's great debate. A stocky Ukrainian with a quick and witty command of English, Liberman is typical of Russia's new breed that...
Drugs & Detergents. What the physician can do for shortness of breath depends largely on its cause. Many cases of bronchitis are the result of infection, and can be largely relieved, if not actually cured, by treatment with antibacterial drugs. Other cases are relieved by inhaling substances that help to break up the mucous secretions. But emphysema is stubborn. Since its basic causes are still unknown, doctors have as yet no hope of finding a true cure or general preventive. Yet treating its effects is important because emphysema neglected overtaxes the heart in a manner that may cause death...
This unhappy prognosis, however, might well be changed by a simple dose of preventative medicine: take more science--it will kill you or cure...
Venereal disease does not attract many medical researchers. There never have been great numbers of syphilologists, and their numbers and efforts have been sharply reduced since the 1945 discovery that penicillin is a fast and almost certain cure for early syphilis. But last week, as the most prominent U.S. syphilologists met in Denver for a VD seminar, it became clear that the cutback in research is premature. What is urgently needed is a vaccine against the disease...
...Contacts. Before a cure can be effected, the victims must be identified and their contacts traced. Of about $10 million appropriated by Congress for syphilis control, nine-tenths goes for finding cases and contacts and less than $1,000,000 for research into methods of prevention...