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...Penicillin Deaths. After going through the catalogue of drugs that cause severe or fatal breakdowns in the blood-forming mechanism, Dr. Moser reminded his audience that one of the worst drug offenders of all remains one of the most valuable lifesavers available: penicillin. It is known to set off an infinite variety of allergic or "serum sickness" reactions, and causes up to 300 U.S. deaths a year. Even the mildest of drug-induced difficulties, he added, should not be minimized, for the side effects are not limited to one generation. If a woman has certain radiopaque dyes injected for gall...
From the first sulfa compounds of the 1930s to the latest molecular manipulation of penicillin, the wonder drugs of modern medicine have carried a high price tag. And the bill keeps getting bigger. Patients are paying it with an increased number of drug-induced diseases...
...past year, a complex and ambitious program under American AID for South Viet Nam has pumped into that country an average of some $30 million worth of goods a month ranging from cement to penicillin, from sheet steel to automobile tires. This effort is essential to bolster Viet Nam's war-buffeted economy, and, of course, to support the war effort. But as of last week, no one in Saigon or in Washington had any real idea of how much of that matériel had been used for its intended purpose, how much had helped to line profiteers...
...check the pass of each G.I. entering. Vietnamese girls who want to work in Disneyland must obtain a special entertainer's card and visit An Khe's clinic once a week for a medical examination by Vietnamese doctors and a U.S.-provided shot of a long-lasting penicillin-type drug to suppress disease. Forced to choose between morality and the morale of their men, the division's officers are clearly troubled by Disneyland. But, as one colonel explained, "We wanted to get the greatest good for our men with the least harm." For visitors...
...Minh's missile sites. Its sensitive in struments help police to identify paint smears on hit-and-run victims, enable conservationists to check traces of water pollution in fish. Its products helped in the creation of the first atomic bomb, also made possible the production of synthetic penicillin and vitamin B12. All of these tasks-and many more- are the business of a little-known Connecticut company named Perkin-Elmer Corp., one of the fastest growing members of the fast-growing scientific instrument industry. Variety has paid well for Perkin-Elmer: last week it reported its tenth straight year...