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...found the cigarettes too weak, "first, the filters were loosened to permit a larger number of smoke particles to get through. Second, the blend was changed to include more of the stronger, heavier-bodied tobaccos." In 1952 P. Lorillard Co. (Kent) designed a filter that let in only i milligram of nicotine, 9 milligrams of tar; unfortunately, the sales did not reflect the effectiveness, and last year, said the committee, Kent's new filter let through double this nicotine and tar content. Similarly, Liggett & Myers' L & M brand had only 1.5 milligrams of nicotine, 11 milligrams...
...Waksman hoped, the drug made strong medicine. It killed many man-killing microbes; unfortunately, it acted like a mankiller as well. It turned out to be a cytotoxin, a cell poison with the strange selective trick of attacking some cells more than others. So virulent that one milligram could kill a large chicken, actinomycin seemed far too dangerous ever to try on humans. Last week in Rome, pleasantly surprised, Dr. Waksman told the International Congress of Microbiology that German scientists have finally taken the sting from his dangerous drug and turned it into a potential weapon against cancer...
...Michalek gave100-milligram injections to Jack Clifford, 30, a lab technician, and Mrs. Ardys Pearson, 26, a secretary. As he reached for the methadon bottle to give the much smaller injections to another secretary and himself, the physician drew back in shock. He had used that bottle the first time. He looked quickly at Mrs. Pearson; she was already in deep distress. Dr. Michalek called for antidotes. Then he picked up the phone and told the dean: "I think that maybe I might have made a mistake on the dosage, perhaps...
Skinless but Normal. With little to lose in Gaines's case, Dr. Whitelaw decided the time had come to play a hunch. He ordered all other medication stopped. Then he began injecting his patient at six-hour intervals with 20-milligram shots of ACTH, the new synthetic hormone (TIME, April 10). Within five days the patient's most dangerous symptoms had vanished. He was resting comfortably, "a normal man," in the words of one doctor, "only without much skin...
...shoulder by a policeman and asked down to the police station. Norwegian law provides that the police may give any driver a blood test if they have "fair reason" to suspect that he has had too much akevitt-i.e., more than a concentration of five-tenths of a milligram of alcohol per cubic centimeter in the blood. * Recently, a Norwegian driver who had had a few drinks but wanted to move his car a few feet into a better parking space, merely loosened the brakes of the car while a friend pushed. The conscientious motorist was nevertheless picked...