Word: potentes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crimson scoring punch has been potent (42 goals in four games) but most of these tallies have come on what Munro describes as "individual sorties rather than assists." In an attempt to improve team coordination Munro has put special emphasis upon passing and clearing plays in practice drills this week...
Carney Love was 42, a slight and pretty woman, with two grown children and a record of generally good health; it was nothing more than bleeding gums from a recent tooth extraction that led her doctor, John Wolf of Redding, Calif., to give her the potent antibiotic Chloromycetin. She got the drug again six weeks later for bronchitis-eight prescriptions in all, counting renewals...
Chloromycetin. which is Parke. Davis' trade name for the potent antibiotic chloramphenicol. got FDA approval in 1949. It attacked many bacteria against which penicillin was useless, notably the typhoid bacillus; equally important, it was the first effective drug against psittacosis (caused by an unusually large virus) and against such diseases as typhus, scrub typhus and spotted fever (caused by related microbes called rickettsiae ). Not until 1952, when hundreds of thousands of patients had had the drug-often for viral respiratory infections against which neither it nor any other antibiotic is effective-did evidence arise that it had caused...
Investigational Testing. The hard fact is that any potent drug is almost certain to have some dangerous incidental effects in some proportion of patients after it is widely used. To keep these backfires to a minimum. FDA first provisionally licenses a new drug"for investigational use only" (after testing in animals), whereupon most manufacturers get research physicians to try their product on 1,000 to 3,000 patients. It was this step-by-step procedure that fortuitously kept thalidomide. the sleeping pill now suspected of causing many malformations in babies in Europe and elsewhere (TIME...
...denouncement of the columnist from the Senate floor, Aiken said that his object was to help, not hurt, the U.N. "By making false statements and accusations," said the Senator, addressing himself directly to Lippmann, "you and people who act like you are giving the old-fashioned isolationists the most potent ammunition they have had in the last two decades...