Word: sulfas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pesticide-treated grain--are known to leave residues in meat and poultry. Only 46 of these are now monitored by the USDA, the agency responsible for inspecting meat, even though 40 are suspected of causing cancer and 18 are suspected of causing birth defects. Antibiotic arsenic compounds, sulfa drugs (long ago linked to cancer), and the infamous diethylstilbestrol (DES), which was found to cause cervical cancer way back in 1971 in daughters of women who used the drug, are still fed and injected into the animals we eat. Despite the existence of safer alternative drugs, the meat industry continues...
...would be surprised to know what percentage of our infectious diseases were already on their way out before any breakthrough happened, and I'm talking of such major breakthroughs as sulfa drugs and antibiotics. They were on the way out because they had been declining for many, many years. And why? Because of better nutrition, better sanitation, better water supplies, not primarily because of basic research...
...forms of pneumonia are inflammations of the inner surface of the lungs. The classic form, deservedly dreaded before the era of sulfa drugs and antibiotics, is caused by bacteria. The vast majority of these cases can now be cured by drug treatment. More puzzling to specialists in infectious diseases has been the viral variety that attacked the President. This may be caused by any one of scores of different viruses, from those responsible for the common cold and laryngitis to those associated with measles and influenza. Infections provoked by these viruses do not yield to any known drugs, since medication...
...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...