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...will spend $890 million in 1961 on medical research-and even as it does so, the U.S. public will spend $1 billion for quack remedies and gadgets and dietary health fads. By best estimates, $350 million will go for vitamin supplements, mostly self-prescribed and not needed, and $150 million for equally unnecessary laxatives. While the nation's medical centers spend $111 million seeking causes and cures for cancer, the public will shoot $50 million for quack cancer remedies. With arthritis and rheumatism the comparison is still worse: $6,500,000 for legitimate research, but $250 million wasted...
...these days of feature-oriented newspapers and vitamin-supplement television, the magazine industry is deathly sick. Only T.V. Guide and Playboy are thriving; Coronet has just gone the way of Collier's,and the Post is en route to financial ruin...
With exam period in full swing, Square merchants are reporting a sharp increase in No-Doz sales to sleepy-eyed students. Although sleeping pills and tranquilizers are not quite keeping pace with No-Doz sales, which have tripled at many stores, vitamin pills and Metrecal are also going at a faster rate than usual...
...superbly conditioned athlete, Gimeno is unruffled by the rigors of the professional tour. He invariably falls asleep as soon as he sinks into an airplane seat, voraciously gobbles steaks and vitamin pills. He is also hungry to improve his game. "From Pancho Gonzales," says Gimeno, "I learn to throw the ball further in front of me when I serve, so I get more power. From Lew Hoad I learn to hit the ball harder. But always from myself I learn to fight like a lion." Gimeno is assured of a lion's share of the kitty: Promoter Kramer...
...incubating, but gamma globulin shots are painful, costly and scarce. The PHS's protective advice: "Wash your hands." Antibiotics have no effect, and once the disease takes root, doctors can do nothing but put their patients to bed, forbid alcohol, treat their symptoms and feed them a nutritious, vitamin-rich diet. In severe cases, ACTH and cortisonelike drugs may help to prevent coma and clear up jaundice...