Word: isoniazid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thousands of TB patients sought out mountain air and were put on regimens of nutritious food. Chest X rays helped spot infected patches of lung. Finally, with the development of such drugs as streptomycin and isoniazid in the 1940s and 1950s, tuberculosis seemed on the way to being vanquished...
...first medications more effective than the Asian ancients' chaulmoogra oil had been developed by U.S. researchers, tested at the Public Health Service Hospital in Carville, and just released for use in Hawaii. The best-known and most widely used is dapsone (DDS). For those who also had tuberculosis, isoniazid was used. Still newer drugs include the potent antibiotic rifampin, and even thalidomide, which is administered to treat complications, but not for women of childbearing age. Collectively, these are indeed wonder drugs: when used promptly to treat newly discovered cases, says Koch, they can usually make the patient noncontagious within...
...applied directly to the skin to deal with acne pustules. In tests, they treated 80 youngsters with moderate acne with four widely used antibiotics, applying the medications twice daily for eight weeks and counting the number of lesions at the end of each month. Three of the drugs-chloramphenicol, isoniazid and tetracycline-proved of little value. The fourth, erythromycin, showed that it may be worth further study. After four weeks, the drug had produced a small, but measurable reduction in acne lesions on the foreheads and cheeks of 16 of the 20 patients using...