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...blue-green mold, Penicillium notatum, which excretes penicillin, has a laboratory rival. Last week a biochemical team led by Dr. Vincent du Vigneaud of the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical...
Sedosan, with the well-known unity trade mark, is the most sensational discovery of the new age-more effective than aspirin . . . more victorious than penicillin. For Sedosan . . . cures everything . . . Sedosan stills the worker's hunger, protects the freezing intellectuals . . . eliminates "reactionaries" . . . transforms Nazis, according to a guaranteed process, into screaming red SEDers...
...rapid penicillin treatments, doctors think they have a tool which, if the public will cooperate, can almost eradicate venereal disease. Syphilis treatment: eight days, $52. Gonorrhea: one or two days...
Streptomycin, an antibiotic containing a germ-killing soil organism called Actinomyces griseus, is especially effective against certain deadly "gram-negative" infections for which there was no known cure. It does the job in many a case where penicillin and the sulfa drugs fail. But it is expensive: about $16 a gram (average treatment: six to ten grams). Since the drug's discovery in 1944 by Rutgers' Microbiologist Selman A. Waksman, it has been tested against a wide variety of diseases by a National Research Council committee headed by Boston's Dr. Chester S. Keefer. Their report...
...Last week the Journal of the American Medical Association reported reassuringly: 1) commercial penicillin now in use is predominantly of the effective G type instead of the useless K (TIME, May 6); and 2) while new penicillin-resistant varieties of bacteria have been developed in test tubes, they are not yet a problem in practice...