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...until a fortnight ago did the International Inflammation Club convene its first symposium. The club is an amorphous group with no officers or formal organization. Conceived by Biochemist John C. Houck of Children's Hospital in Washington, D.C., it drew together 80 researchers as guests of the Upjohn Co. at Brook Lodge in Michigan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pathology: What Causes Inflammation And Why It Occurs | 6/16/1967 | See Source »

...enormously versatile because the injury may be a stabbing or abrasive wound, a burn, or invasion by infectious microbes. Even a sterile, uninfected wound summons inflammation to its aid. Since nature cannot construct individual defenses against an infinite variety of attacks from innumerable sources, said the Upjohn Co.'s Dr. E. Myles Glenn, it mobilizes everything at hand-the immune and clotting mechanisms, the blood-forming and lymph systems, the liver, and many others. Sometimes it overreacts to the injury; sometimes it damages the very system it is seeking to defend, as in autoimmune diseases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pathology: What Causes Inflammation And Why It Occurs | 6/16/1967 | See Source »

...Manhattan one afternoon with a chief inspector. In another car parked near by, a second inspector, posing as a black-marketeer known as "Wally from Denver," was scheduled to make an incriminating deal with a genuine crook called "Tom." Wally had been offered a counterfeit version of Upjohn's antidiabetes drug, Orinase. His assignment: to persuade the racketeers to show him their manufacturing plant as proof that they could really deliver him 200,000 doses a week for a year or more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drugs: Counterfeit Prescriptions | 6/2/1967 | See Source »

...INJECTIONS. A progesterone derivative, the Upjohn Co.'s Depo-Provera, has had FDA approval for six years as a treatment for disorders of the lining of the uterus. Its use as a contraceptive is still limited in the U.S. to experimentation by researchers. The dose, injected into a muscle and slowly released into the system, can be adjusted so that women might need an injection only once a month, or every three or six months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Contraception: Freedom from Fear | 4/7/1967 | See Source »

...showed the Norman warriors armed with Desoutter Power Tools. Heinz offered its soup buyers a chance to enter an archery contest in which the first 1,066 winners would be rewarded with Kenwood Chef food mixers and Arrow shirts. And, in ads boosting its Neo-Medrone Acne Lotion, the Upjohn pharmaceutical company captioned a drawing of William on horseback as follows: "Who conquered William the Conqueror? No one. But he still worried a lot. About his acne. It was unconquerable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: . . . And All That | 10/21/1966 | See Source »

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