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...Buyer. Early this year, Cyanamid finally brought suit against Fox and Sharff for $5,000,000 apiece, charging that the two chemists had delivered to at least six Italian companies formulas and cultures for three Cyanamid-developed antibiotics and one antiarthritic steroid. Cyanamid estimates that the Italian firms-all of which hotly echo Fox and Sharff in denying any formula pirating-last year sold $25 million worth of drugs based on Cyanamid processes. Ironically, two major customers for the controversial drugs were the bargain-minded U.S. Defense Department and Veterans Administration, which together during the past two years bought...
...Brand names boost the prices of drugs, so wherever possible we do our buying by generic name. A steroid of the cortisone group that costs us $11.50 a hundred tablets is list-priced by brand name at $170; a sedative is $3.50 by generic name, $16.20 list-priced by brand name; a sulfa derivative is $7, as against a list price of $53.32 by brand name. If we could do all our buying by getting bids from manufacturers on a generic-name basis, we could save 40% of our $315,000 annual drug bill...
...Scottish hospital moaning: "The end is near. The end is near." Doctors agreed; the patient was suffering from an intense, intractable form of bronchial asthma in which the contractions of the bronchial tubes become almost continuous and the lungs are starved for air. Antibiotics, Adrenalin, steroid hormones and oxygen had been given without effect. Finally, the University of Aberdeen's Dr. A. H. C. Sinclair-Gieben took over. His specialty: hypnosis...
After decades of research to find a contraceptive pill, doctors have now been swamped with synthetic steroid hormones that work both ways: they will either prevent conception or encourage it, depending on how they are given. The first such product was announced by Chicago's G. D. Searle & Co. (TIME, May 6); this also had stop-and-go power over the menstrual cycle. Last week three drug manufacturers joined the New York Academy of Sciences in sponsoring a Manhattan conference which received progress reports on the varied and potent effects of several "progestagens" (progesterone-like hormones). Outstanding items...
...importance of the aspirin-steroid [hormone] tablet has been exaggerated way out of proportion," said Dr. Joseph J. Bunim, clinical director of the National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases. "Even though the hormone aspirin pills are a prescription drug, there is a real danger that the patient will get too much of them and knock out his adrenal glands. In many instances the patient won't realize he is not taking ordinary aspirin. In others he will enjoy the lift he gets from them and take more and more. In still others, the physician will respond...