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...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...
...Central Highlands, the Viet Cong have found an ally in an especially severe form of malaria resistant to the most potent drugs. Now an Army doctor, Major Peter J. Bartelloni, reports in the A.M.A. Journal that the wonder druggists have done it again. A new, long-acting sulfa, sulformethoxine, developed in Britain, has sent the cure rate soaring and, just as dramatically, reduced the relapse rate...
...Bartelloni's team added sulforme-thoxine in an "SPQ" combination. Then they dropped the quinine and dosed malarial G.I.s with a combination of the new sulfa and pyrimethamine. Result: The new drug not only cures patients faster and kills parasites in the blood, but reduces the relapse percentage from 40% to a scant...
Doctors have long been warned to go easy on antibiotics and sulfa drugs. When used with routine frequency, such germ killers may defeat their own purpose by leading to ever more resistant germs. Now comes worse news: the appearance of drug-resistant bacteria that can foil several antibiotics at once. The disturbing explanation is that certain germs "catch" this power of resistance simply by contact with one another. As a result, some infections of the intestinal and genitourinary tracts are becoming tougher than ever to treat...