Word: dosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time, the Government raised no objection to the price (63? to 70? per dose). In the rush to get the vaccine, it had asked for sealed bids instead of negotiating prices, which would have allowed the Government to inspect company records on costs...
...National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, which also bought millions of doses of the vaccine, got its vaccine at 30? to 35? per dose. But this bore no relation to costs. The foundation drove a hard bargain because it had guaranteed to buy the vaccine even before it knew the vaccine was successful, had poured $22.4 million into 17 years of research that produced the vaccine...
...little over half the initial price. "It would be a strange conspiracy," said Eli Lilly's President Eugene N. Beesley, "that had as its purpose repeated decreases in prices -never an increase.'' Lilly's average profit, said Beesley, was only 6¼? per dose, against which the company took the gamble of producing vaccine without assurance of a market. Currently, Lilly has an inventory of 24,043,000 doses. Since demand has fallen way off, Lilly may have to destroy the vaccine, because it loses potency after a certain time. Said Beesly: "It is incredible that...
...high hurdle. Late Monday afternoon, May 19, if he conforms to his usual ritual as a somewhat ailing health enthusiast, he will eat three raw eggs cracked into a glass with the yolks intact and swallowed in one agonized gulp. In the evening in his dressing room, he will dose himself from a staggering array of pills and nose drops. As a tension reliever, and because he thinks it helps clear his mind, he will sit down for several minutes bolt upright, put his hands on his knees, close his eyes, inhale four times in staccato gasps through the nose...
...space, but it might do some damage to men who live for a long time in a satellite. Van Allen figured that the radiation level inside the satellite might reach about 0.06 roentgens per hour. At this rate a man would receive in five hours his maximum weekly permissible dose of 0.3 roentgens. A small amount of lead shielding would reduce the dose to a supportable level. The crew of an outbound spaceship need not worry about the radiation belt. If moving fast enough to leave the earth, they would pass through it in about 20 minutes...