Word: elies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Alarmed by continuing reports of undesirable side effects from the drug car-butamide, given by mouth for the relief of diabetes (TIME, Oct. 29), Indianapolis' Eli Lilly & Co. asked 2,900 doctors who have been testing it on 10,000 patients to abandon the trial. Most disturbing was a report that-at least in animals-car-butamide can cause liver damage which might be worse than the diabetes it is meant to control. Lilly was already experimenting with other promising drugs...
...other hand, he has invented as many tricks of staging as has Shaw of thought. For a while the two showmen get in each other's way, though eventually they set each other off. This is partly owing to an accomplished cast, including Glynis Johns, Burgess Meredith and Eli Wallach, who particularly scores as Bill Walker. Played straight, this Major Barbara might have been better. But there was never the sense, as of late with other Shaw, that it urgently needed...
...Indianapolis' Eli Lilly & Co., makers of carbutamide (originally known as BZ-55), warned doctors that among an estimated 1,000 patients who have received carbutamide in the last 18 months there have been eight deaths for which the drug may have been at least partly responsible. There was yet no proof that carbutamide was solely to blame but Lilly was putting doctors on guard. About 5% of patients had skin rashes, loss of appetite, nausea, drug fever, or lowering of the white blood-cell count. In nearly all such cases the symptoms went away when the drug was stopped...
Yale rebounded from an earlier shaky 19-14 win over Connecticut to stop easily Brown, 20 to 2. Denny McGill and AlWard, the Eli "touchdown twins," piled up most of the Blue yardage, each scoring once...
...Negro teachers are, for the most part, bad. In his book The Negro Potential, Eli Ginzberg points out that "the average future Negro teacher (freshmen in teacher-training institutions) in the South ranked below 95 percent of the freshmen in the whole country...