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is off the digitalis. David Hemmings, swishing about in a limp-wristed parody of his fashion-photographer role in Blow Up, furnishes the film's few diverting moments. Most of the cast, including Law, are automatons whose flagrant absence of talent does full justice to their material. Miss Cannon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Valley of the Dregs | 8/30/1971 | See Source »

A doctor is still supposed to prescribe it for only one condition, the manic phase of manic-depressive psychosis. Some authorities are concerned that physicians may prescribe the drug too freely, for it may be dangerous. Double the usual prescribed dose can make a person miserably ill, and more might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Help for the Manic-Depressive | 4/20/1970 | See Source »

Across Ethnic Lines. The need for such procedures is being emphasized by a growing body of biochemical knowledge. "As a patient's health changes, or as other drugs are used," says Kalman, "the blood level of an important drug may change." One example is the use of barbiturates in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drugs: Toward Personalized Prescriptions | 8/1/1969 | See Source »

Sales v. Safety. Panel after panel found that both manufacturers' claims for drugs and the doses prescribed by doctors are based largely on unquestioned assumptions. This is true not only of relatively new products, such as the cortisone group of hormones, but even of digitalis, the oldest and most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The FDA: Cleaning Out the Medicine Chest | 7/25/1969 | See Source »

Those 30 pills included antacids and vitamins and, more important, digitalis to strengthen the action of his new heart and two drugs to suppress the immune mechanism by which Blaiberg's body might reject the graft: azathioprine (Imuran) and the hormone prednisone. The doctors at Groote Schuur Hos pital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transplantation: Heart's Ease | 4/5/1968 | See Source »

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