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...Vigneaud, 77, winner of the 1955 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his synthesis of two pituitary hormones; of a stroke; in White Plains, N. Y. Chairman of the biochemistry department at Cornell University Medical College, Du Vigneaud headed a team of scientists who succeeded in 1946 in synthesizing penicillin, the climax of years of work by an international task force...
...sailors passing through on shore leave. Much of their contribution to the local economy is made in the honky-tonk town of Olongapo, where the principal commodity for sale is sex. About 15,000 Olongapo residents are registered "bar girls," many of them infected with a penicillin-resistant strain of gonorrhea known as "Viet Nam Rose." According to Navy estimates, American sailors spent $128 million in Olongapo last year-not all of it, of course, on recreational...
...award was the result of a Hearst stunt. A young New York girl was dying of a fierce disease and had "seven hours to live" (this uncanny precision - seven hours, not six or eight - was quintessential Hearst journalism). Penicillin would save her, but the Army held the existing supply of the wonder drug. Paul phoned the Surgeon General, talked him into releasing the antibiotic, and had it rushed to the hospital in a Journal-American radio car. He beat death by three hours, and the Times by a good deal more...
...though gonorrhea tends to produce a yellowish discharge). Because the technique for culturing chlamydia is not yet widely available, doctors diagnose NGU by examining a smear or culture of discharge for the presence of gonococci. If none are there, the disease is NGU. Unlike gonorrhea, which usually responds to penicillin, NGU is treated with tetracycline or erythromycin...
Sanchez, who played two five-game matches on Sunday, acquired a blister on his toe which led to an infection and when doctors gave him an injection of penicillin, his troubles really began. Either a reaction to the medication or a popped blood vessel from the shot itself forced Sanchez to seek medical advice just prior to taking to the courts. Much to the dismay of Desaulniers and the assembled squash mavens (not to mention Sanchez), the doctors recommended that he not play for fear of permanent injury...