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...Administration from 1954 to 1965; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. As head of FDA, Larrick fought for stiffer regulations of food additives, in 1961 prevented the sale of thalidomide because the drug was believed to cause deformed babies, and in 1963 cracked down on the sponsors of Krebiozen, whose claim that their medicine could cure cancer was proved groundless after extensive tests...
Nothing stirs medical attention-and controversy-as vigorously as a new treatment for cancer. The 15 years of Krebiozen controversy ended only last year. Now, in a strangely reminiscent case, the Government has asked the U.S. District Court in Cleveland to issue a permanent ban on the manufacture and interstate shipment of the latest invention against the dread disease, the "Rand cancer vaccine...
...Attorney Merle M. McCurdy, mindful of the quicksand of medical testimony in which the Government got mired in the Krebiozen case, was careful to raise no question of the efficacy of the Rand vaccine. All he asked for was a restraining order to stop traffic in the vaccine until-if ever-it is proved safe for human use, found free of contamination, and is licensed for interstate commerce...
Another drug experimenter entangled with the law was Dr. Stevan Durovic, 61, father of Krebiozen. Last month Durovic was declared innocent of charges ranging from mail fraud to submitting false statements to the Government about his so-called anticancer drug. But last week a federal grand jury in Chicago indicted him on charges of evading $904,907 in taxes on an income of $1,076,939 during 1960-62. Durovic, said his lawyer, was in Paris having his kidney treated...
...Government's efforts, nothing was changed. The Krebiozen controversy will continue and perhaps become more intense. Dr. Ivy announced that he will go on treating patients; Dr. Phillips said he would not "until we know what is required under FDA law." The National Cancer Institute announced that it still sees no reason to make a further study, and the FDA will maintain its ban on interstate shipments. Said FDA's new director, Dr. James Goddard: "Each day that a person with treatable cancer relies on Krebiozen is a day that brings him closer to death...