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PILL PRICE CUT of 15% for antibiotics has followed criticism of high drug prices by Senate Antitrust Committee. Pfizer, Upjohn, Lederle and Squibb cut prices of tetracyclines-biggest antibiotic family-to retailers buying direct...
...Arthur Dale Console, 46, former medical research director for E. R. Squibb & Sons, told the Senate Antitrust Subcommittee (TIME, Dec. 21), chaired by Tennessee's Democrat Estes Kefauver, that many drugs of high price but low medicinal value are being foisted on doctors and patients. Dr. Console emphasized that he was testifying about the industry as a whole and not as a witness against Squibb. (After recurrent bouts with tuberculosis, he quit the company to go into private practice in Princeton, N.J.) Then Dr. Console declared: "The incidence of disease cannot be manipulated, so increased sales volume must depend...
...related process, testosterone can be transformed into testololactone. Chemists at E. R. Squibb & Sons had found that bacteria could make testololactone by fermentation. When they tried to produce it this way in bulk, said Dr. Segaloff, the bugs rebelled and turned out instead a variant called delta-1-testololactone. It was just as well: testololactone has proved to have all the virilizing properties of testosterone. But the delta1 variant, tested so far in 24 patients, proved in seven cases to be as potent as testosterone in suppressing cancer growth, and with no virilizing effects...
...more, became Brazil's most active stock underwriter, was doing business in New York, Colombia and Venezuela. All told, Deltec has sold stock to some 50,000 Brazilians, 80% of whom, Dauphinot estimates, had never owned stock before. The buyers put their money into such Brazilian subsidiaries as Squibb, Dunlop, Willys, General Tire, Lone Star Cement, I.T.&T. and Brazilian department-store, telephone, textile, cement and steel companies. Dauphinot's salesmen also sell investment trust shares for as little as 100 cruzeiros...
DELALUTIN (E. R. Squibb & Sons' trade name for 17-alpha-hydroxyprogesterone) offers new hope for maintaining pregnancy in women with histories of repeated spontaneous abortions. Data dealt with 83 women who had had 353 earlier pregnancies, only 45 living babies; with the drug, they produced 56 live babies from only 83 pregnancies. Three Boston doctors reported 43 live babies from 59 pregnancies in diabetic women (including 41 severe cases). Delalutin must be injected...