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...family physicians: "You can get as much information as I have by reading TIME's MEDICINE section." Last week at the American Medical Association convention in Atlantic City, many doctors buttonholed and commended the man most responsible for TIME's continued accurate coverage of Dr. Jonas E. Salk's vaccine. That man is Gilbert Cant, 45, TIME's MEDICINE editor for the past six years, a TIME writer and correspondent for five years before that. Writing the cover story on Dr. Salk (March 29, 1954) gave British-born Editor Cant a searching interest in the Salk...
...suggest that the article on the mishandling of the Salk vaccine, under the heading "Medicine" [May 16], would have been more appropriate under "National Affairs," "Business" or "Theater"-for obvious reasons. Should not the whole tragic circumstance point a moral-that medical problems be handled by the medical profession and not by pressure groups, large organizations with axes to grind, or politicians who are always willing to "rush...
...ironical that a few supposedly "intellectually acclimatized" politicians are able, in a few short weeks, to make a shambles of the painstakingly thorough job of research Dr. Salk and his staff conducted during the vaccine trials...
...spokesmen disclosed how close the U.S. had been to unimaginable disaster. Dr. William H. Sebrell Jr., director of the PHS's National Institutes of Health, testifying before a House committee, in effect answered the question that for a month had haunted U.S. parents: was the Salk vaccine safe? Answer: no, not under testing procedures so far used. Sebrell admitted that the safety tests originally developed for the 1955 Salk vaccine had proved to be "less than satisfactory," and also that the margin of safety built into the minimum standards was "no longer dependable...
...eventually accepted amendments to the testing procedures. (If Cutter makes and tests vaccine according to the revised specifications, it can get back into the business.) Spokesmen for both sides had been chattering all week about the new procedures being simply a question of interpretation-as Dr. Jonas E. Salk put it, "like reading the fine print in an insurance policy." But this was not so. The changes, as finally announced, were substantial...