Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...potent drug, chlorothiazide (trade-named Diuril by manufacturers Merck Sharp & Dohme, though not yet released for general prescription use), taken by mouth, can be highly effective as a diuretic, stimulating the body to get rid of excess water, which causes edema (dropsy) in patients with enlarged and failing hearts. Columbia University's Dr. John H. Laragh and Dr. Felix E. Demartini reported that chlorothiazide works well by itself, also increases the effectiveness of other diuretics when given in small-dose combinations. In three cases where no drug worked alone, a combination did the trick. The A.H.A...
...Public Health Service experts said politely that horse-serum preparations can cause severe reactions, that it is hard to evaluate a treatment for so short-lived a disease as Asian flu. By coincidence, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a strong warning the same day against any false and misleading claims by drug manufacturers "that products of limited benefit can effectively prevent or cure Asian flu ... The public should be on guard...
...gifted young (27) Thomas Schippers conducting Cherubini and Prokofiev symphonies. The Kansas City Philharmonic, lucky to make its 25th season despite a big deficit, was out to win new fans by playing in movie houses, churches, synagogues and high-school auditoriums (one concert will be sponsored by the Katz Drug Co.; admittance: a cash-register receipt). Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera opens this week with Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, while in Fergus Falls, Minn. (pop. 14,000) a bravura rendering of Norwegian folk songs was given by a 70-voice male chorus, and 300 citizens were studying Handel...
DELALUTIN (E. R. Squibb & Sons' trade name for 17-alpha-hydroxyprogesterone) offers new hope for maintaining pregnancy in women with histories of repeated spontaneous abortions. Data dealt with 83 women who had had 353 earlier pregnancies, only 45 living babies; with the drug, they produced 56 live babies from only 83 pregnancies. Three Boston doctors reported 43 live babies from 59 pregnancies in diabetic women (including 41 severe cases). Delalutin must be injected...
...DRUG MERGER is in the works be tween Bristol-Myers Co. (1956 sales...