Word: vitamin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wait for Evidence. Medical scientists' best guess as to how thalidomide damages the fetus is that rapidly dividing cells mistake it for either glutamic acid or a B vitamin, absorb it, and fail to develop normally. In theory, thalidomide might block the metabolic processes of rapidly dividing cancer cells by the same mechanism. But thalidomide failed dismally in its first routine trials against animal cancers in the U.S., and has shown no promise in more detailed tests now in progress...
...well-advertised bottle of vitamins has earned itself such a prominent place on the American breakfast table that many a mother has been moved to cram the kids with pills. If a little of the stuff is good-so the reasoning runs-a lot must be better. Not so, says Orthopedic Surgeon Charles N. Pease; parents should pay more heed to warnings about the possible dangers from vitamin overdosage. In the A.M.A. Journal, Dr. Pease cites specific examples of damage done by too much vitamin A: it has stunted children's growth or left one leg two to three...
...Paul's, each student takes one basic course-anything from Greek to college-level physics. Those who take one year of calculus or of Russian get no credit unless they return for a second year. In addition, all students take a "vitamin" course in rhetoric and English composition. The weekly work load: 24 classes of 50 minutes each, plus at least 20 hours of studying. Only after a student is chosen does St. Paul's consider whether he is able to pay the $600 tuition. Help from business and foundations enables some students to pay as little...
Died. Dr. Conrad Arnold Elvehjem, 61, president for six years of the University of Wisconsin and biochemist whose identification of nicotinic acid as a new vitamin (now called niacin) led directly to the cure of pellagra, and who won medicine's Lasker Award in 1952; of a heart attack; in Madison...
Finally Orville wound down, and color began returning to his cheeks. A reporter tried to break the tension. "Is this," he asked lightly, "the result of a vitamin shot this morning?" Said Freeman: "I did have a-what do you call them, a unipill? or univac?-vitamin pill at breakfast. Maybe that's it." Maybe it was, but it seemed more likely that it was just the bitter pill of being the current custodian of the scandalous U.S. farm mess...