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Doctors disagree sharply on the value of vaccination against tuberculosis with BCG, the Bacillus of Calmette and Guéerin (TIME, Sept. 23). Nearest approach to a consensus is that BCG is not to be recommended for people enjoying high standards of sanitation and health, but may be good for...
The Salk vaccine against paralytic polio may be even more effective than the statistics have shown. Since wide-scale vaccination began in 1955, there have been hundreds of reported cases of paralysis among people who had had one or two shots (only a handful among those who had had three...
The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, which also bought millions of doses of the vaccine, got its vaccine at 30? to 35? per dose. But this bore no relation to costs. The foundation drove a hard bargain because it had guaranteed to buy the vaccine even before it knew the...
The Justice Department does not know whether it will proceed with a civil suit to recover some of the $53.6 million in federal funds spent for the vaccine, because it is still not sure the price was too high. It noted that the five companies twice cut prices voluntarily, when...
The drug companies angrily denied the charges. Prices of vaccine, they noted, had been cut five times, to a little over half the initial price. "It would be a strange conspiracy," said Eli Lilly's President Eugene N. Beesley, "that had as its purpose repeated decreases in prices -never...