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...have both the knowledge they need to wipe out tuberculosis as a public-health problem and the tools to finish the job. In the U.S., at least, with plenty of space for its people, resources to house and feed them decently, and wonder drugs by the carload, the TB victim these days dies not so much from his disease as from neglect. Last week health and Government officials in Alabama were in distress as they faced up to the fact that, although their state runs an energetic TB detection campaign, it lags sadly in preventing the disease and caring...
Once out of prison, Klose took treatment for his TB (but was not cured), prepared to demand financial restitution from the British for false arrest. At 42, his hair was almost white...
Doctors, who have long known that there is a rough relationship between TB and the emotions, had these facts spelled out for them last week at the Los Angeles meeting of the National Tuberculosis Association. And with the spell-out, came a theory about the body mechanism which governs the relationship...
...mechanism appears to be located in the busy little adrenal glands, which secrete steroid hormones (like cortisone), said Dr. Edmund R. Clarke Jr. of Seattle's Firland Sanatorium. He and his colleagues tested the adrenal output of 109 TB patients. In general, those with abnormally low steroid levels had widespread, active tuberculosis; those with near-normal levels had the commoner, less extensive form of the disease, while others with high levels had localized but stubborn infections...
...John Buddingh of Louisiana State University reported a quicker test for TB. Sputum or spinal fluid from a suspected case is injected into a fertilized egg. Microscopic study within four to six days will show whether tubercle bacilli are present. The current method with cultures or guinea pigs takes four to six weeks. ¶ Polio struck early at Prairie Village, Kans. (pop. 9,500), and, with eight cases reported, the Office of Defense Mobilization allocated 1,000 cc of scarce gamma globulin. Not all exposed children got the shots; injections were given instead to every third or fourth youngster...