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...could be combined. Couldn't the pooled substance be used to make a vaccine that would work on victims of various forms of cancer? Cancerous cells were thereupon collected from patients all over the country and put through an extraction process. The remaining protein was combined with gamma globulin from rabbit serum in the hope of producing an all-purpose vaccine. The trouble with this imaginative theory is that so far there is no accepted evidence for the existence of such widely effective antigens in unrelated cancers...
...blood will be sent to South Vietnam in the form of gamma globulin which is injected into all servicemen to protect against an epidemic of infectious hepatitis. Whole blood will not be sent to South Vietnam...
...Pool learned that frozen plasma, when slowly thawed, leaves behind a residue rich in antihemophilic globulin (AHG), the protein that is lacking in the blood of hemophiliacs. Spun in a centrifuge, the protein can be concentrated further. Refrozen, it can be stored for relatively long periods in sterile plastic bags. Thus far the AHG concentrate, which is being prepared by a pair of San Francisco-area blood banks, has been used successfully on 14 patients in four California hospitals. Researchers may some day learn how to help hemophiliacs make their own AHG, perhaps through transplants of AHG-producing tissue...
...what amounted to a slight case of measles, with a mild rash and some fever. A later vaccine made with killed virus took two or three injections to build immunity of uncertain length. Doctors' preferences varied between giving a shot of the live vaccine with a shot of gamma globulin to reduce side effects, or giving one or more shots of killed vaccine, then one of the live. In the confusion, only 7,000,000 U.S. children have been vaccinated, which leaves 20 million susceptible youngsters...
...horse serum is almost as dangerous as the rabbit-brain product. Now, said Dr. Tierkel, veterinarians and others who have had a full course of vaccinations are being asked to take a booster shot of duck-egg vaccine. A month later, they donate a pint of blood. The gamma globulin fraction from the serum in these blood samples is rich in rabies antibody, and because it is from human serunr it should cause no bad reactions...