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The experts had just pronounced the Salk anti-polio vaccine both safe and effective. Three years ago, University of California Psychologist Robert M. Gottsdanker was delighted when he succeeded in getting one of the first shots for daughter Anne Elizabeth," 5. Equally happy was Engineer Charles Phipps of Monrovia (near...
Within a fortnight, the joy gave way to anguish. The Gottsdanker and Phipps youngsters, like 77 others inoculated with vaccine made by Berkeley's Cutter Laboratories, came down with polio.* Live virus was found in six (of 17) Cutter vaccine batches. The U.S. Public Health Service reached the "presumption...
Nothing Left? Last week, little Anne Gottsdanker was in Alameda County Superior Court; she was paralyzed in both legs, had a heavy brace on one. Randy Phipps dangled a severely disabled left arm. For 27 days, a jury of eight women and four men under Judge Thomas J. Ledwich had...
For the jury, the first two answers were easy: yes on both counts. The issue of negligence developed into a long-distance battle between two giants of medical science. From Pittsburgh came a massive, 142-page deposition by Vaccinventor Jonas E. Salk, called by the plaintiffs' resourceful, aggressive Attorney...
Scolio Club. Each year the Hospital for Special Surgery handles 30 to 40 scoliosis cases-about half of them of unknown cause, most of the others resulting from paralytic polio. The polio cases tend to be more severe because other parts of the body are also weakened; usually a greater...