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...Salk vaccine against paralytic polio may be even more effective than the statistics have shown. Since wide-scale vaccination began in 1955, there have been hundreds of reported cases of paralysis among people who had had one or two shots (only a handful among those who had had three). But in last week's A.M.A. Journal, a University of Pittsburgh team headed by Dr. William McD. Hammon
...When the Salk vaccine proved successful in 1955. six drug firms were licensed to produce the vaccine. Exhorted by the U.S. Public Health Service to produce as fast as they could, the companies turned out more than 205 million doses of vac cine through 1957. sold 103.5 million doses to the Government for distribution to an eager public. Last week five of the companies -Eli Lilly & Co.. Allied Laboratories Inc.. American Home Products Corp.. Merck & Co.. Inc. and Parke. Davis & Co. -were indicted in a Trenton (N.J.) federal court on antitrust charges that they had criminally...
...them on a movie theater's continuous-program basis from 7:30 to 12:30, which let the viewer pick his time and go to bed early. In the afternoons Cott scheduled natural-science documentaries, highbrow interviews with such distinguished men as Poet Robert Frost and Dr. Jonas Salk, rebroadcasts of historic news telecasts, e.g., the famed Army-McCarthy hearings. And for its live ventures, WNTA introduced a weekly Art Ford's Jazz Party in which such top-ranked musicians as Trombonist Wilbur de Paris and Clarinetist Pee Wee Russell got together in an empty studio...
They began using the telephone number last summer for recorded answers to a deluge of queries about Salk vaccine inoculations. This month, alarmed at an upsurge in VD that is giving the U.S. 1,000,000 new cases of gonorrhea a year (20% among youngsters aged 15 to 19), they installed the VD recording, mentioned it in a single newspaper interview...
...vaccine against measles is at last in sight. This momentous news was announced last week to a Manhattan conference of virus experts by Harvard's famed Virologist John Franklin Enders, winner of a Nobel Prize for developing the tissue-culture foundation on which the Salk polio vaccine was built...