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Coed Sports. Riverside Hospital should be perfect for the purpose. Finished early in World War II as a TB hospital, it was never opened as such because it could not be staffed. Now it has been refurbished to treat 100 boys and 50 girls; mess halls, classes and sports will be run on a coed basis. Addicts may be committed voluntarily by their parents (most of the first admissions last week were of this type), or by the courts, including the city's special Narcotics Term Court recently set up for juveniles...
...birth of Methodism's founder, Joh Wesley. As the titular leader of U.S. Mett odists, Philadelphia's 56-year-old Bisho Fred P. Corson, new president of the Metf odist Council of Bishops, puts the emphasi on attracting youth. "The Communist! Fascists and ultra-fundamentalists, like tb Youth for Christ," he said, "all came t power via the youth movement. We mu< face that fact and recognize that they suf plies some sort of inner urge...
...Medford went many patients who could not be helped by standard medical practice or were impatient with their slow progress. Many felt better at first. This is natural, says the Massachusetts Medical Society, because a lot of patients will respond hopefully to any change in treatment. But of nine TB cases on which the medical society's committee reported, two were maintaining improvement begun under other treatment, five were worse and two were dead. Several cancer patients had died shortly after Dr. Lincoln reported them "much improved...
...Bilbao's Laboratorio Faes that Chemist Juan Socias made the drug (which the Spanish call FSR-3) under the guidance of Physician Luis Romero. Just a year ago, doctors began treating ten TB patients. Their experience was the same as that of U.S. researchers in all ways but one: two patients proved to be allergic to the drug, and its use in their cases had to be stopped. Next came a controlled test in which 20 patients got FSR-3, and ten who thought they were getting it actually got sugar pills. The 20 showed varying degrees of improvement...
...will take six months for doctors to render a confident verdict on Rimifon, Marsilid and Nydrazid. Meanwhile, there is a sobering lesson in the history of anti-TB drugs: dozens have come and all but one "wonder drug" (streptomycin) have gone, but TB remains...