Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most promising scientific developments in the hunt for a cancer cure. So far, even supervoltage radiation has failed to eliminate more than a small percentage of serious internal cancers; surgery has proved successful only in localized, easily removable cancers, e.g., of the breast and cervix. Cameron's conclusion: "Drug treatment has to be the solution...
Trial & Error. Although Cameron and his colleagues have come to agree that all cancer cells must have a common vulnerability, the search for a killer drug has been costly, timeconsuming. It is likely that only when the chemical peculiarities of cancer cells are known, said Cameron, "can we interrupt the process for reproduction by interposing chemicals to block the cancer cell's required 'food.' " Currently, researchers must apply one chemical compound after another to each of a dozen types of animal tumors. Once a drug seems effective, it is put through an exhaustive series of tests...
...opium. Calmly washing her hands after making a fresh batch was the chatelaine, grey-haired, motherly Mme. Kalyopi Kalo-gridi, a Greek woman whose title "Queen of the Smugglers" had been well earned in two criminal convictions and the bet ter part of a lifetime spent in the illicit drug trade. Kalyopi's Teheran plant was capable of turning out each week up to 110 Ibs. of deadly dope worth nearly $500,000 on the wholesale market. Disguised as gift packages, some 90% of Kalyopi's product was shipped...
After that the logical move was to get Cant himself on the show. Now TIME'S medicine editor is appearing each Thursday morning on Garroway's nationwide program. Last week Cant reported on the drug treatment of tuberculosis. His subject this week: the discovery of an antidote against nerve gases (see MEDICINE...
Died. John Campbell Boot, 67, second Baron Trent of Nottingham, longtime (1926-54) head of Boots Pure Drug Co., Ltd., the vast (more than 1.300 shops in Great Britain) British drugstore chain founded by his father; in St. Lawrence, island of Jersey...