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Other doctors, meanwhile, have borrowed a leaf from Coley's book and have been trying, with some success, to awaken sleeping immune systems to combat cancer. The techniques of this approach vary widely. Some doctors still use Coley's bacterial-toxin formula; others inject vaccine made from killed mumps virus and diphtheria bacteria. Many, however, prefer a live-bacteria tuberculosis vaccine called BCG (for Bacillus Calmette-Guerin, after the Frenchmen who developed...
...regulations prevent nurses from performing many of the functions of physicians, the nurse-practitioners find plenty to do. Charles Koltz Jr., 29, a mustachioed male nurse, who together with another male and two female nurses recently opened an office in Bay Shore, N.Y., changes dressings and treats wounds, gives injections and teaches patients to inject themselves. He also draws blood, instructs diabetics and heart patients in proper dietary practices and provides post-operative care. Juanita Woods, 37, a Greenville, S.C., psychiatric nurse, offers even more specialized services. She works with a minister and a social worker to provide psychological counseling...
...scholars charged with organizing a Buddhist religious group that was alleged, most improbably, to have Zionist ties. The paper also provided fresh details of the widespread riots in Lithuania last May (TIME, July 31). From Leningrad, the Chronicle identified secret police personnel of a prison psychiatric hospital where warders inject political prisoners with dangerous drugs...
...lambasting of Eric Crone is yet another example of the Crimson sports staff's callous, ignorant, and opportunities, style of reporting. Callous in their malicious attacks of individual performers, ignorant of the subject about which they write, and opportunistic in the way they capitalize on Harvard athletic blunders to inject ridicule and cheap shot criticism at the expense of Crimson athletes, "Crime" sportswriters are noted for their ability to find a scapegoat when the going gets rough...
...recent address to his freshman class entitled "The Decade of Short Cuts," Yale President Kingman Brewster Jr. cited three ways in which some students of the last decade sought to find exhilaration and inject zeal into under graduate life. One was the demand for "relevance," another was the glorification of the "happening" ("anything was good as long as it expressed the real, now self"), and the third was "trashing," an ugly resort to violence. Brewster concluded that despite a residue of change, some of it beneficial, these "patent medicines" bred disillusionment and fostered a cult of unreason. Such attitudes left...