Word: labs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...College of American Pathologists, said the U.S. Department of Justice, have been performing improper surgery on patients' pocketbooks. They have been conspiring to set unduly high prices on such services as urinalyses and blood tests, and they have tried to drive nonmembers out of the lucrative lab business. With those harsh charges, Justice Department lawyers asked the U.S. District Court in Chicago to prescribe a whole new set of business ethics for the busy pathologists...
Noting that there are some 20,000 commercial medical laboratories in the U.S., which do an annual business of $3 billion, the Government alleged that "virtually all" of the labs are owned by members of the college; it claimed that all such labs have agreed not to compete. Further, said the Justice Department, the college does not permit its members to work for any lab that is not run by pathologists for the profit of pathologists. Thus no member pathologists may be employed by commercial labs run by chemists, biologists or even by physicians who are not pathologists...
...five-year-old Jeryl Lynn Hilleman came down with mumps. Jeryl Lynn is the daughter of Dr. Maurice R. Hilleman, head of the virology team at Merck Sharp & Dohme Institute for Therapeutic Research, which had been hunting for years for a mumps virus that would grow well in the lab and lose its virulence, while still retaining its power to give immunity. Dr. Hilleman and Dr. Eugene Buynak found that Jeryl Lynn's virus was just what they wanted...
...splendid new building was not completed without tears. Originally scheduled for completion July 1, 1966, Hilles Library opened September 26--with its reserve book system, coffee shop, language lab, music library, and cinema theater unfinished...
...slightly uneasy crack that in a few years "people won't ask you what books you're reading, but what drugs you're taking." Some of the drugs may be bubbling even now in the retorts of Dr. Hofmann, who was back in the Basel lab last week after receiving from Stockholm's Karolingska Institute an honorary degree for the discovery of lysergic acid diethylamide...