Word: dosing
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...departure from its original plan, University Health Services (UHS) yesterday opened a ten-day program to offer students who received swine flu vaccines last month a second dose of possible protection...
...immunization program comes in response to a recent government announcement that one dose of the vaccine will probably not protect most 18- to 24-year-oldsagainst swine influenza. The U.S. Center for Disease Control issued a bulletin in November recommending that everyone in that age range receive a second dose...
...Jitters. There was good reason for WHO's jitters. Though gonorrhea has already reached epidemic proportions-an estimated 3 million cases a year in the U.S. alone and perhaps 100 million worldwide-doctors have usually been able to treat it effectively and inexpensively with a large dose of penicillin. In recent years some gonococci strains with a measure of resistance had emerged, but even those stubborn bacteria eventually succumbed to still bigger dosages of the antibiotic. Not the new strains; for the first time, gonococci are figuratively gobbling up penicillin. Their secret weapon: an enzyme called penicillinase ("penicillin destroyer...
However the new strain evolved, its existence vastly complicates the treatment of gonorrhea. Other antibiotics-notably spectinomycin-have proved effective. But they are often expensive (about $4 a dose for spectinomycin, v. only 50? for penicillin), could also meet bacterial resistance and, unlike penicillin, do not also knock out that other scourge, syphilis. At the very least, the new gonococci will require several visits to the doctor, as opposed to the old, cheap, one-shot treatment. Says Dr. Ronald St. John of the CDC's venereal disease division: "If this new strain becomes widespread, then a lot of money...
Laborites and even some Tories dismiss the coalition talk as partisan. "Old men's twaddle," snorted George Gale, the crusty columnist for the Daily Express. "What is being offered in all this talk of 'government of national unity' is yet another dose of escapism." Callaghan's predecessor, former Prime Minister Harold Wilson, told TIME that he opposed such a plan in peacetime because a national government "almost invariably produces fudged decisions." Moreover, Wilson added, the inclusion of Tories in the government would jeopardize the tenuous working agreement between the Callaghan government and the unions and lead...