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...research is to be built for the University of California at Los Angeles. Its heart will be a foot-thick sphere of stainless steel containing uranyl sulfate enriched with uranium 235. Operating normally at 5 kw., the reactor will "burn" one ounce of fuel in 20 years, will provide gamma rays and neutrons for treating cancer patients as well as radiation for other research...
...late Edward Cutter's Fresno, Calif, pharmacy in 1897, is the second oldest pharmaceutical house in the country under continuous ownership and management (the oldest: Parke, Davis & Co.), and has a solid professional reputation. It pioneered commercial production of serum albumin (for shock and kidney infections), gamma globulin (the first anti-polio serum), triple vaccine (against diphtheria, whooping cough and tetanus), the Semple Rabies Vaccine (an improvement on the old Pasteur formula), and is the exclusive U.S. marketer of fibrinogen (which helps to clot blood) and bubonic plague vaccine...
...eleven states where vaccine was contrasted with placebo; in the 33 states where children received either real vaccine or nothing, the results were similar but a bit blurred. (Probable reason: anxious parents of children who got no shots may have had them inoculated on the side with gamma globulin, which has a short-lived protective effect.) Among the children who were observed for evidence of polio but who got no shots, there were eleven deaths. Among children who got placebo shots, there were four deaths. It Is Potent. This quality was measured by the vaccine's ability to raise...
...Hygiene Department has given injections of gamma globulin to more than 20 freshmen in Thayer Middle, following the contraction of infectious hepatitis by Louis J. Elsas '58, a student from the entry...
Students who have been refused shots of the gamma globulin were irate and complained that the doctors offered to give them a prescription and have them buy it themselves. Contratto explained that only persons who had slight contact with the ill student were being refused free inoculations. The State will not give gamma globulin for use in a scare, he said...