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...happy prospect, even if one has a life-time to pay it back. The loan, ever present, being reduced by a piddling sum each year, could turn into a hateful obligation fairly soon. Knowledge that the repayment is less than one per cent of total income will only prolong the indebtedness, not diminish...
...hope that kanamycin will also prove effective against many urinary-tract infections (common, stubborn and dangerous), and against tuberculosis-though precise assay of its usefulness against TB will take years. Also offered was evidence that kanamycin (released for general prescription last month, trade-named Kantrex by Bristol Laboratories) may prolong life and ease pain in cirrhosis of the liver...
Gold Thread. When his mother finally takes the boy to a Copenhagen specialist it is too late to do more than prolong his eyesight for a few years, but back home in the town concert hall it is still early enough for the boy to find an exciting new sense of vocation. A violin note spins out over the hushed audience, "thin and glittering like a gold thread in sunlight . . . the echo felt like a kind of weeping in one's chest. A weeping that could not be wept." At novel's end, with a profound sense...
...tranquilizers and newer "psychic energizers" only the harbingers of a parade of drugs that will cure a wide variety of man's emotional disorders, increase and prolong his mental efficiency, perhaps decrease his need for sleep? This teaser from the psychochemist's dream world was presented last week by New York's Dr. Nathan S. Kline to a Chicago meeting of the American Pharmaceutical Manufacturers' Association. Eventually, said Dr. Kline, modifications of existing drugs, and others still to be discovered, should lead to progress in these areas...
Hopes that medical progress may prolong human life far beyond the 100-year mark are unrealistic. So said New York University's Dr. Morris Rockstein before the Gerontological Society in Cleveland last week. Despite advances already made, a person of 65 now has only a slightly greater life expectancy than one of the same age had in the past. Also, the fact that few people live much beyond the 100 mark indicates that this is "close to the potential maximum for the majority of human beings...