Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...already straining many an urban budget. Addressing the Mayors' Conference in Honolulu late last month, San Francisco's public-health director, Dr. Ellis D. ("LSD") Sox, said that the 10,000 hard-core hippies already in San Francisco are costing the city $35,000 a month for treatment of drug abuse, warned that with a summer influx there was serious danger of epidemics in infectious hepatitis (from needles exchanged in shooting amphetamines), venereal disease (already up six times from the city's 1964 rate), and other illnesses ranging from typhus to malnutrition...
Three 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...
...Joseph M. Hill, leukemia cells reappeared. Frank was admitted to Bristol General Hospital, and Dr. Hill immediately resumed the daily injections of L-asparaginase. After 32 days the boy developed an allergic reaction to the enzyme, but Dr. Hill reports that he was successfully desensitized, and that the treatment reduced his white-cell count from 300,000 to 33,000, and the proportion of leukemia cells from...
Though Frank died, L-asparaginase was shown to be a promising weapon against leukemia-but not a cure. The enzyme, which apparently starves cancer cells of nutrients that they cannot manufacture themselves, is extracted at great cost-about $15,000 for a month's treatment for an adult-from growths of common bacteria found in the human colon. Dr. Hill is still enthusiastic about the drug and will soon have an abundant supply of it for further trial. Milwaukee's Miller Brewing Co. is closing down part of a Fort Worth brewery and donating fermentation equipment for enzyme...
Sibling Rivalry. Miller's Canine Behavior Center usually has two dozen dogs under treatment, and Miller has had a number of celebrity cases in his practice. He claims to have cured Kirk Douglas' apricot poodle of "terribly regressive" characteristics, disposed of the "postman syndrome" in the dogs of Lauren Bacall and Anthony Franciosa, and erased the dominance frustration in Katharine Hepburn's German shepherd. He did not have much luck with a case of sibling rivalry in Bob Hope's dogs, but he blames that partly on the Hopes, who did not show up for most...