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...Drs. Jack Davies of Albany Medical College, Peter Greenwald of the New York State Health Department, and Nicholas Vianna, a U.S. Public Health Service officer attached to Greenwald's office, began their investigation last April. Their curiosity was aroused when a colleague remarked on the high frequency of Hodgkin's disease among members of Albany High School's 1954 graduating class. Intrigued, the researchers obtained a list of seven students known to have been seriously ill. A check with the state health department's Cancer Bureau showed that three of the seven did indeed have Hodgkin...
...problem posed by methadone's addictive properties remains to be solved. But two doctors at the University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Medicine have experimented with a drug that may resolve the dilemma of distribution. Writing in the A.M.A. Journal, Drs. Jerome Jaffe and Edward Senay report that 1-methadyl acetate, a methadone-like substance, suppresses both withdrawal symptoms and narcotic hunger up to three times as long as ordinary methadone. Therefore it decreases the temptation and the opportunity to cheat on the treatment by selling the heroin substitute for drug money...
Indian Findings. What provided the clue was a study by Bombay Drs. S.M. Sirsat, J.C. Paymaster and A.B. Vaidya of the Parsis, descendants of the Zoroastrians who fled Persia 1,200 years ago, settled in India and married exclusively within their own sect. Parsi women are three times more likely to develop breast cancers than the rest of the Indian population. Nearly 40% of the Parsi mothers studied showed virus-like particles in their milk...
Master Molecule. Even more significant evidence of the agent's potential threat has been provided by Drs. Sol Spiegelman and Jeffrey Schlom of Columbia University. They report in Nature that a "double blind" study,* conducted both in Camden and at Columbia, showed a 100% correlation between particle concentrations and the presence of an enzyme, or chemical catalyst, which is associated with viruses known to cause cancer in animals. The experiment also revealed two startling similarities between the virus-like particles and tumor-causing RNA viruses: both have the same density and both share the ability to reverse the normal...
...Pellegrino is no less liberal in his views on national health needs than are Drs. Knowles and Egeberg. He has been expanding his hospital's services to the poor, favors a national health insurance plan and wants a sizable increase in the number of U.S. medical students and paramedical personnel. He is said to be an excellent administrator, a skill he will need at HEW, where his new post will involve overseeing the disbursal of some $4 billion a year. And according to some HEW insiders, administration was not one of Egeberg's strengths...