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Bacterial pneumonia, once a major killer, is now largely controlled by sulfa drugs and antibiotics. Viral pneumonia is another matter. Believed to be caused by many kinds of viruses, and called primary atypical pneumonia (PAP) by doctors, the disease presents an uncomfortable array of symptoms. The patient usually does not get suddenly ill; he gradually gets coldlike symptoms, distressing headaches, rising temperature, chills, and a severe cough. The sickness may last weeks, though it rarely kills...
...prices of drugs, so wherever possible we do our buying by generic name. A steroid of the cortisone group that costs us $11.50 a hundred tablets is list-priced by brand name at $170; a sedative is $3.50 by generic name, $16.20 list-priced by brand name; a sulfa derivative is $7, as against a list price of $53.32 by brand name. If we could do all our buying by getting bids from manufacturers on a generic-name basis, we could save 40% of our $315,000 annual drug bill...
...some cases, enlargement is the result of infection (usually in the bladder, which rests like an upside-down flask with its neck in the upper part of the prostate). These infections cause acute urinary difficulties, which subside when the infection yields to sulfa drugs or antibiotics...
Drugs are useless against most true viruses. , But the cause of trachoma is a large virus, like that of psittacosis;-ten times bigger than the virus of polio. The large viruses can be knocked out by some sulfa drugs and antibiotics-already widely used in pilot campaigns against trachoma. And the British researchers hope to make a preventive vaccine...
...Wilfred F. Jones Jr. and Research Technician Mildred W. Barnes) spent three years poring over the records of 10,000 patients who had severe infections at the time of death in Boston City Hospital. The researchers covered 24 years, beginning with 1935, to get data before the first sulfa changed the picture (1937). Deaths caused by bacterial infections in the bloodstream dropped steadily until 1947, they found. Since then, the rate has stayed low or dropped further for deaths caused by pneumococci and the dreaded streptococci-the organisms most vulnerable to sulfas and antibiotics. But in these twelve years there...