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...malaria discipline, the Department of Defense reports that ten Americans have died in Viet Nam this year from cerebral or other complications, and researchers are intensifying the hunt for new drugs. One that shows some promise is DOS (diaphenylsulfone), normally used in leprosy. Another is a new, long-acting sulfa drug, Fanasil. Malariologists are running tests with prison volunteers to see whether DDS or Fanasil can be used, probably in combination with pyrimethamine, to beat back the chloroquine resistance of falciparum parasites in much of Southeast Asia...
Because burns are among the most common disfiguring, crippling and fatal accidents, physicians and surgeons have tried almost every imaginable therapy. In the 100 years since Lister discovered asepsis, practitioners have hopefully tried phenol, boric acid, picric acid, iodoform, tannic acid, sulfa drugs and ACTH, only to wind up, after a few years, disappointed in all of them. Now another new and seemingly miraculous treatment has been discovered, and once again doctors are hopeful-this time with better reason...
...thereby creating the first "wonder drugs"; of a heart attack; in Konigsfeld, West Germany. Domagk was research director for I. G. Farben when he found some textile dyes stopped infections in mice, successfully applied a dye to his daughter's infected finger, later isolated the active ingredient, a sulfa compound he called prontosil-an achievement that won him a 1939 Nobel Prize, which Hitler, piqued with the Nobel committee at the time, forced him to refuse...
Despite Germany's wars, depressions and inflations, Bayer has always recovered by creating new products- from the world's first sulfa drugs and synthetic rubber to Europe's first color film, put out by its Agfa subsidiary. Now Bayer has regained its postwar position as the continent's biggest chemical industry. Bayer earned $50 million on last year's sales of $1 billion and recently announced that sales are running 9.5% ahead...
This kind of meningitis used to be fatal in 70% of cases. But now the Navy doctors had no need to panic. It was at this same San Diego base 20 years ago that sulfa drugs had proved an almost sure cure for meningococcal meningitis and, no less important, a superb preventive. Wilkowski, severely ill, had to have sulfadiazine intravenously, so he got penicillin as well. All 80 men in his company were ordered to take sulfadiazine tablets twice a day for three days...