Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Within hours after news of the initial deaths, at least nine states closed flu-shot clinics. Meanwhile, samples of vaccine used in Pittsburgh-from a lot labeled 913339A, produced by Detroit's Parke, Davis & Co., one of four manufacturers-were rushed to the Food and Drug Administration's biologies bureau in Rockville, Md., where they were tested and given a clean bill of health. Reassured, several states ordered clinics reopened...
...streets of cities throughout the U.S., a heroin panic is about to hit. The bad news for strung-out junkies is the result of an extraordinary strike by the federal Drug Enforcement Administration. Last week, after ten days of intricately coordinated arrests in 35 cities, federal narcs had bagged 309 men and women described by DEA Chief Peter Bensinger as "distributors and kingpins in the heroin market involving Mexican Brown." It was the biggest -and perhaps most important-federal drug bust ever. In addition, warrants were out for another 150 people...
...vastly improved by the fact that his doctors had been on the lookout for cancer ever since they had found and removed several pinhead-size nonmalignant growths in his bladder in 1968. Five years later, they discovered some new, possibly cancerous tissue, which was promptly treated with the anticancer drug thiotepa and sessions of X-ray therapy that took five minutes a day for five weeks. ("The worst experience in my life," Humphrey recalls.) The therapy worked and the Senator was found cancer-free for three years, but a recent examination at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda...
Since the Food and Drug Administration last week banned Red Dye No. 4, a carcinogenic food dye, so you might expect Harvard medical experts to gag uncontrollably at the thought of eating maraschino cherries in their Manhattans...
...part because of uncertainties about how much X-ray dosage the body could withstand-and was thus abandoned. Rapaport believes, however, that his dog experiments now indicate that these problems could be solved, and that irradiation, plus bone-marrow reconstitution, may eventually offer a way of eliminating troublesome immunosuppressive drug therapy in human transplant recipients as well...