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Across Ethnic Lines. The need for such procedures is being emphasized by a growing body of biochemical knowledge. "As a patient's health changes, or as other drugs are used," says Kalman, "the blood level of an important drug may change." One example is the use of barbiturates in combination with digitalis. If a patient is on digitoxin, one of the digitalis products, and then uses barbiturates for a while, his heart-medicine dosage should be checked, and possibly adjusted, twice. Barbiturates speed up the metabolism of digitalis-type drugs, which are critical within a narrow range. Even...
...drug against tuberculosis. One of the rarer reactions is found among victims of porphyria (see following story), who suffer acute attacks if they take barbiturates; they may also be sensitive to the sulfas. At the opposite end of the reaction scale, some victims of an unusual form of rickets need more than 1,000 times the normal quantity of vitamin D before they respond...
...advertising fadeout on the air waves. In Britain, where cigarette ads were banned from TV in 1965, sales dipped at first, then recovered and went to new highs. In the U.S., per capita sales began declining last year, partly because young sters no longer feel the social need to smoke. They have been increasingly concerned about the health hazards, particularly since mid-1967, when the networks were forced to air antismoking commercials on TV. Indeed, the tobaccomen's decision to turn off their tremendously expensive and competitive TV campaigns may well have been helped along by the prospect that...
There are nuggets of anecdotage along the way. White places his finger firmly on some Nixon fundamentals that are just now becoming evident in the White House. "I've always thought this country could run itself domestically . . . You need a President for foreign policy," Nixon told White in 1967. He quotes an unnamed friend of L.B.J.'s recalling the President's comments on his own peacemaking efforts: "I got earphones in Moscow and Manila, earphones in Rangoon, and earphones in Hanoi, and all I hear on them is 'F you, Lyndon Johnson.' " The historical value...
...Harvard Union third floor common rooms will be open tonight, 8-11:30 p.m., with records, cards, cokes, people...everything you need to "Do Your Thing." Open also on Friday, August 8 and 15. All Summer School and Harvard-Radcliffe students and staff are welcome. No admission charge...