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...View Hospital ten years ago to celebrate their speeding recovery on new drugs, mainly isoniazid, or INH (for isonicotinic acid hydrazide). Last week in Manhattan, the National Tuberculosis Association summed up the good that isoniazid has done in a decade-and surveyed what still must be done to keep TB on the run and eventually make it as rare as smallpox or typhoid...
...flight laboratory. Humble will supply better than 50% of the cash and all the land. Webb will furnish the balance of the bankroll and the know-how for the most ambitious land development in Texas history. Said Webb expansively: "We view this as a program which could mean $375 tb $500 million in development for the Houston area...
When a mink gets TB, his veterinarian simply mixes some isoniazid with his daily horse meat. Last week the Public Health Service announced that isoniazid can be used to prevent tuberculosis in humans...
Isoniazid is a pill made from two ingredients: a form of isonicotinic acid, plus hydrazine, a liquid that has also been used for rocket fuel. Isoniazid has been used by doctors since 1952 to arrest tuberculosis, and has helped cut the TB death rate in the U.S. from 30,000 a year to 10,000. Suspecting that it might also work for prevention, PHS four years ago began a test in Puerto Rico, Mexico and 16 states. Selecting 25,000 persons in daily contact with known tuberculars, researchers gave half of them daily doses of isoniazid; the other half...
...sell modern medicine to the 2,000,000 holdouts, said Madsen, physicians will have to adopt some of the curanderos' tricks. When they give vaccines to ward off an epidemic, they can say that they are injecting holy water. As for TB: "If the doctors just added donkey milk to the regular treatment, it might work out a lot better...