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Trouble with Theory. At the Rand laboratory in an old carriage house outside Cleveland, the theory was subjected to a great leap forward. Suppose, speculated the Randmen, that cancer antigens (antibody-creating agents) from many types of diseases in many patients could be combined. Couldn't the pooled substance be used to make a vaccine that would work on victims of various forms of cancer? Cancerous cells were thereupon collected from patients all over the country and put through an extraction process. The remaining protein was combined with gamma globulin from rabbit serum in the hope of producing...
...vaccine was developed by employees of H. James Rand, a grandson of the founder of Remington Rand Inc., and his Rand Development Corp.* The theory underlying its development was propounded by Dr. Norbert Czajkowski of Detroit's Wayne State University. Patients with advanced cancer have few antibody-forming or other immune mechanisms to combat their disease...
Nevertheless, Rand made and bottled a vaccine. The bottling was done in a room 5 ft. by 8 ft., a Food and Drug Administration inspector testified last week, by a woman who wore no covering on her hair and no sterile gown or gloves. Several Government witnesses testified that they had found bacterial contamination in batches of the vaccine. Dr. Roderick Murray of the U.S. Public Health Service's Division of Biologics Standards said that Rand's report on tests of the toxicity of the vaccine covered only one horse, twelve rabbits and 40 mice. There was evidence...
...Attorney Merle M. McCurdy, mindful of the quicksand of medical testimony in which the Government got mired in the Krebiozen case, was careful to raise no question of the efficacy of the Rand vaccine. All he asked for was a restraining order to stop traffic in the vaccine until-if ever-it is proved safe for human use, found free of contamination, and is licensed for interstate commerce...
...confused with the Rand Corp. of Santa Monica, Calif., which holds Defense Department contracts for many advanced technology projects...