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Dr. Arthur T. Hertig, professor of Pathology, said yesterday that he was opposed to the bill. He said that the human polio virus could not have been cultured had the bill been in effect in the early 1950s. Hertig explained that both the Salk vaccine and the german measles vaccines...
> Doctors have been experimenting with immunotherapy-stimulating the immune system to recognize and combat cancer-for several years. Dr. Carl M. Pinsky of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York injected BCG, a live-bacteria anti-tuberculosis vaccine, directly into the lesions of 39 patients with malignant melanoma, a...
Most doctors and hospitals routinely use this vaccine on Rh-negative women following the birth of Rh-positive babies. Connecticut has established a registry to show which patients need the inoculation and which have received it. Despite such precautions, many women leave the hospital with a built-in immunity to...
Rh disease is not a major problem in Africa−nearly all black Africans (like most blacks in the U.S.) are Rh-positive. In other countries, it remains a persistent though preventable ailment.The World Health Organization estimates that 75% of the Rh-negative women in Britain now receive the vaccine...
These gaps are unfortunate. Used properly, the vaccine is nearly 99% effective.