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...Topical creams or burn dressings containing silver sulfadiazine and sulfa derivatives are being used in addition to the traditional method of sterilization-bathing burns with 0.5% silver nitrate solution. The new dressings cut the rate of infection by pseudomonas bacteria-once the primary cause of burn deaths-in half. In addition, Dr. Irving Feller of the University of Michigan burn center in Ann Arbor has developed a treatment that combines infusions of blood plasma from immunized donors with shots of anti-pseudomonas vaccine. The treatment, which has been in use since 1965, has cut the infection death rate from...
...same criticism applies to combinations of two antibiotics, or of one antibiotic with a sulfa: the FDA believes firmly that these fixed-dosage forms are likely to give a patient either too much or too little of one drug or the other. But many physicians have gone on prescribing them. The most noted example was Upjohn's Panalba (tetracycline with novobiocin), which is now off the market. Soon to follow, if FDA has its way: Squibb's Mysteclin-F (tetracycline with amphotericin B) and Roerig's Signemycin line (tetracycline with troleandeomycin...
...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...