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Growth Spurts. In 1938, at the start of the wonder-drug era, FDA was given broader powers after a sloppy preparation of sulfanilamide killed 107 people. But the sulfas were only the first of several families of potent drugs developed by inventive chemists working with imaginative physicians. And the high tide of new drugs was arriving at a time when the food industry, which gives FDA 70% of its work, had begun its own technical revolution with new preservatives, additives, and other chemicals. The agency did not have nearly enough manpower to do a thorough job, nor was its prestige...
...Wagner took a pioneering step in what most experts consider the right direction when he ordered city agencies to "promote insofar as possible the practices and procedures of collective bargaining prevailing in private labor relations." New York's United Federation of Teachers, for example, now boasts a potent no-strike contract with the board of education that covers salaries, checkoffs, teaching conditions, grievance procedures and binding arbitration...
There were as many dissents as there were theories, and since so few drugs cure viral infections, the very fact that potent anti-cancer drugs such as amethopterin (Methotrexate) and cyclophosphamide (Cytoxan) have cured massive cases of Burkitt's supermalignant tumor might seem to argue against a viral cause. But doctors now believe that what the drugs do is cure or relieve a viral-induced cancer, after the virus itself may have vanished. Thus they may give the body an opportunity to develop its own mechanisms to fight the cancer...
Against New Hampshire Saturday the latent scoring punch of the sophomore second line broke loose, as wings Bob Fredo and Don Grimble scored twice and center Jack Garrity tallied once. If Welland can produce a potent third line from Eric Rosenberger, Pete Miller, Jorge Gonzalez, and his converted defensemen, Kevin Burke and Bobby Clark, to go with the consistently productive front trio, then the Harvard offense will keep up with anyone...
...been ineffective. Some of the drugs now being used to treat the disease require painful injections. In 90% of cases, Ciba's Ambilhar pills cure the American and African forms within a week; tests on the Asian form are under way. Yet, as Ciba admits, even this potent drug cannot wipe out the disease because a cured patient who goes back into the rice fields may be reinfected within minutes...