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...sigh of relief. Under last year's tightened drug-control laws, the Food and Drug Administration is at last launching an all-out investigation to answer a question that has caused savage controversy for twelve years: Is there any basis for the claims that Krebiozen, a mysterious horse-serum drug, is a cure for some forms of cancer? Though Krebiozen has never been approved by any federal agency, about 3,500 doctors have given it to about 5,000 patients. Last week FDA began gathering evidence to establish...
...give Russia the atomic bomb, accused the U.S. of germ warfare in Korea. "Communism," he preached, "is doing something. It is following Christ's standards." He even attributes his vigorous health to the Reds; he and his wife inject themselves with a mysterious, Rumanian-developed novocain serum called H3. Anglican churchmen have long squirmed over the Red Dean's antics, but Dr. Johnson has at last done something to gladden their hearts. Saying that he wants to travel and finish his autobiography, he turned in his resignation (as of next May) to the Queen...
...also keep a master list of donors and a special list of donors of the rare blood types most likely to be needed in emergencies. No donor will be paid. By cutting out the professional donors, many of whom have been Bowery bums, the center hopes to cut the serum hepatitis rate from transfusions...
...ignorant refusal to vaccinate schoolchildren. He might as well have written a passionate parable in favor of rural electrification. The Voices of Glory. which should have been a great book, suffers irreparably from too villainous villains, too pure heroes, and a heroine who, if she were to carry that serum through one more mile of waist-deep snow, would surely prompt the reader to burn all his Christmas seals...
This, says Milwaukee's Dr. H. William Bardenwerper, is probably the chanciest thing the doctor could do. Of 2,000,000 tetanus antitoxin shots given annually in the U.S., an estimated 300,000 to 600,000 result in serum sickness, some in severe, possibly crippling serum neuritis. Antitoxin may cause 20 or more deaths a year...