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Because flu tends to erupt at ten-year intervals, doctors have been searching for a defense against the major epidemic expected to occur toward the end of the decade. Now they appear on the verge of success. Scientists at the National Institutes of Health's Allergy and Infectious Diseases...
> If a woman of childbearing age does not know whether she has ever had rubella (German measles)-and most women do not-the ideal time to vaccinate her is right after the birth of her first child. So says the Medical Letter, an ad-free newsletter published by a group...
> One of the most rewarding medical advances of the 1950s was the finding that heart damage from rheumatic fever could usually be averted if repeated attacks of strep throat were prevented by long-term use of penicillin. A particular type of streptococcus sets up a reaction that attacks the heart...
> Of the many diseases that are apt to erupt in recruit camps when thousands of young men from diverse backgrounds are thrown together, one of the deadliest is Type C virulent meningitis. The fatality rate is high, and death may occur within a few hours after appearance of the first...
But the indictment is important nonetheless. As the report makes clear, DBS inaction resulted at least in part from uncertainty over its legal authority to regulate vaccine potency and how much power HEW could delegate to DBS. A HEW directive seems to have resolved these doubts. A more formal cure...