Word: isoniazids
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Dates: during 1952-1952
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From the sunbaked wastes of Arizona's Navajo Reservation came dramatic news about the new TB drug, isoniazid (TIME, March 3). The report was carefully evaluated in the gleaming tower of Manhattan's New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. Then, last week, Cornell's Dr. Ralph Tompsett got up in London's cavernous, dingy Central Hall and passed the news to 400-odd experts gathered for a British Empire conference on TB. Sum of the findings: isoniazid is the only drug that belongs in the same class with streptomycin for effectiveness against tuberculosis. In most respects...
...great majority of cases, tuberculosis attacks the lungs. Isoniazid* was first given to such patients a year ago, and enthusiastic reports of good results broke out during the winter. But TB of the lungs is an unpredictable disease; of two patients with chest X rays which look alike, one may die quickly while the other gets better for no apparent reason. It might take years, and thousands of cases, to prove the value of a drug in these circumstances...
...Food & Drug Administration authorized the general use, on any doctor's prescription, of isoniazid (short name for the hydrazide of isonicotinic acid), the new anti-T.B. drug (TIME, March 3). So great has been the public demand for the drug that Macy's promptly advertised a supply of it in the New York Times...