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Testosterone, a male sex hormone, is a fine thing when properly used. But the Food & Drug Administration warned this week that testosterone, ignorantly used, can stimulate the growth of cancers. The FDA was delighted that federal courts have barred two Los Angeles firms from peddling hormones without prescription...
Also under the court ban: sale of unprescribed female sex hormones (estrogens). Improperly used, said FDA, these may cause serious injury to women's reproductive organs...
...Louis, a woman put the finger on the Harry W. Schaum Drug Co. because she feared that her daughter, confined in a state institution for drug addiction but soon to be released, would promptly get a fresh supply. In Chicago, a man reported to the FDA office that he had found his wife drugged with products bought from the Fair Price Drug Co. (on a previous drug spree she had landed in jail). There were similar complaints from smaller cities, e.g., in North Platte, Neb. (pop. 12,429) four druggists had illegally sold barbiturates, sulfas and abortion drugs. These firms...
...drug manufacturers leaned heavily on FDA's clearance, on clinical studies recently completed or still in progress, and on fan letters from cold sufferers who thought that the pills had worked fine. Anahist announced that it was increasing its advertising schedules...
...Crile Clinic sent in another report: two patients (one 70, the other 60) had died and five others were ill, apparently from the salt. Dr. Fishbein asked newspapers and radio stations to issue warnings. Planning to reclassify lithium chloride as a drug instead of as a special dietary food, FDA heard of the deaths and warned: "Stop using this dangerous poison at once...