Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week Warner-Chilcott announced that all that painstaking effort has produced a new medicine to forestall premature birth. The firm released to medical centers and drug wholesalers a hormone derivative called Releasin, which has the properties of relaxin. In a human, the drug does not work as drastically as in gophers, but it has the effect of "softening" tissues in the birth canal. It does not simply make delivery easier-though it does that too. Its chief virtue is to halt premature labor so that a fetus can be carried to term, or nearly...
Last week a robust Food & Drug Administration celebrated its 50th anniversary. Each year it passes judgment on the edibility, potability or safety of products worth more than $60 billion. Each week it removes an average of 98½ tons of contaminated food from the market−enough to feed poisonous meals to 131,000 people. It has driven from the nation's drugstore shelves such once popular devices as eye-cup-like gadgets to restore sight, has purged labels of fanciful prose; e.g., one imaginative drugmaker touted ordinary sarsaparilla as a cure for everything from "female complaints" to syphilis...
...decision was made, he wrote President Eisenhower, "in the interests of providing more properly for the future security of my family" (wife and three children, ages nine to 18). Their future security: his new $60,000-a-year job as president of New Jersey's Warner-Chilcott Laboratories, drug manufacturers. As Surgeon General, his salary was only $16,800 a year...
...Aminophylline, a valuable drug for treatment of asthma, can be dangerous when given by mouth or intravenously. For convenience, many doctors have taken to giving it to children in rectal suppositories, but this too can be hazardous, warned Detroit's Dr. Anthony C. Nolke. In the A.M.A. Journal he reported 21 cases of severe illness (vomiting, raging thirst and maniacal agitation) and four deaths from...
...doubtful that any treatment so far devised for chronic lymphocytic leukemia (a form of leukemia that affects older adults) prolongs the patient's life, said Marquette University's Dr. Anthony V. Pisciotta, but it is possible to prolong useful life by transfusions, X ray and drug treatments which reduce unsightly tumor masses and control anemia. Two effective drugs: T.E.M. and a new one named chlorambucil...