Word: sulfa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Viet Nam border. Under the code name "Lucius," Ho provided the OSS with intelligence about Japanese forces and, a generation before U.S. air attacks on North Viet Nam, his guerrillas rescued 17 downed American flyers. An OSS medic probably saved Ho's life by treating his tropical fevers with sulfa drugs...
Pleasant Flavor. First to go from the drugstores, and already decertified by the FDA, are many of the "combination drugs," so called because they contain two antibiotics, or an antibiotic and one of the sulfa drugs. In all, 48 combinations, made by 19 different manufacturers (including eight of the biggest in the U.S.), were decertified. These 48 happen to be minor items in the prescription trade, so their makers are not likely to put up much of a fight for them. Some contain streptomycin, which may cause deafness, especially in children, and so should never be used unless...
...want to know where he can find a good-looking girl. So we'll tell him. It's part of life and part of travel." On the other hand, the Guide makes a point of warning that "there's a new strain of gonorrhea so hardy that it eats sulfa and penicillin for breakfast...
...months ago, nine-year-old Frank Hayes Jr. was pronounced free of leukemia following treatment with a new anti-cancer substance, L-asparaginase. Last week, in a Dallas hospital, he died. The immediate cause of death was pneumonia, brought on by a strain of bacteria that neither antibiotics nor sulfa drugs could kill. But the underlying cause was the leukemia, which prevented the boy's natural defense mechanisms from fighting off the infection...
...Common Market. In the second stage, both sets of tariffs, with a few exceptions, would drop at least to half their present level. This phase, however, will go into effect only if Congress repeals the controversial system by which duties on organic benzenoid chemicals-notably dyes, sulfa drugs, plastics and pesticides-are based on their American selling price, which results in tariffs as high as 172%. If Congress does so, the Common Market and Austria agreed to trim the carefully contrived taxes which help to keep large-horsepower U.S. autos out of Europe, and Britain promised to ease its Commonwealth...