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...When dollar-conscious Britain decided to try out oral contraceptives developed in the U.S., doctors in Birmingham thought they might cut the cost by cutting the dose. U.S. authorities had just approved a cut from 10 mg. per pill (taken 20 days a month) of norethynodrel (trade-named Enovid in the U.S., Conovid in Britain by G. D. Searle & Co.) to 5 mg. The British cut it to 2.5 mg. The policy proved to be penny-wise and pound-foolish: of the first 48 women who took the half-dose pills, 14 became pregnant. Later trials switched...
Littlefield hurriedly locked the cellar door and sent for the police, who promptly arrested Webster. When told of the discovery he gulped out "Did they find the whole body?" Then he swallowed a small strychnine pill, which unfortunately had no effect even in his excited condition. At his trial three months later Webster admitted to striking Parkman with a stick of wood in the heat of an argument, but he stoutly maintained he had not meant to kill his creditor. Although the court-room gallery had room for only 100, it is reported that over 60,000 people saw some...
Isoniazid is a pill made from two ingredients: a form of isonicotinic acid, plus hydrazine, a liquid that has also been used for rocket fuel. Isoniazid has been used by doctors since 1952 to arrest tuberculosis, and has helped cut the TB death rate in the U.S. from 30,000 a year to 10,000. Suspecting that it might also work for prevention, PHS four years ago began a test in Puerto Rico, Mexico and 16 states. Selecting 25,000 persons in daily contact with known tuberculars, researchers gave half of them daily doses of isoniazid; the other half...
Known to most laymen as "shaking palsy," the condition was named for James Parkinson, an English physician who described it in 1817. An affliction that has claimed many famous victims,-it is marked by slowness and stiffness of movement, facial immobility, shuffling gait, forward-leaning posture, and "pill-rolling" movements with the fingers. Most characteristic is the tremor, usually of the limbs, sometimes of the head, especially noticeable at rest. It does not kill. Drugs relieve a few of the symptoms, but the only radical treatment is daring brain surgery pioneered by New York University's Dr. Irving Cooper...
Besides carrying the biggest stick in baseball, Mickey Charles Mantle, 29, speaks with a soft-selling voice in the world of advertising. A switch-hitter, Mantle has personally endorsed a clutch of products ranging from Camel cigarettes to an anti-smoking pill called Bantron, now leads both leagues in the amount of money he collects from testimonial ads-a sum so large that his business agent prudently will not divulge...