Word: steroids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
Recently, several drug firms produced a "super-aspirin"-a combination of aspirin and a small amount of steroid hormones -which is being publicized as a spectacular remedy for arthritis...
...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...
...some sufferers from rheumatoid arthritis, so often disappointed by over-optimistic claims for new treatments, there was good news. First, favorable impressions of the value of a new steroid, Meticorten (TIME, Nov. 15), have been confirmed, reported the Public Health Service's Dr. Joseph J. Bunim. The drug is five times as powerful as cortisone or hydrocortisone. Main trouble: the drug also causes unwelcome side effects, must be used under strict medical care...
...steroid called Viadril (chemical kin to cortisone and the sex hormones) shows great promise as an anesthetic, reported two University of California researchers. Dripped into the veins, it has been successfully used in 125 operations. If upheld by mass testing, Viadril could make surgery safer because...