Medicine: Coffey & Humber Refused

Drs. Walter Bernard Coffey and John Davis Humber of California may operate a cancer research laboratory at Huntington, L. I., but they may treat no patients there with their adrenal cortex extract (TIME, May 25 et ante). So decreed the New York Board of Social Welfare last week. The Californians consider themselves only temporarily frustrated. They may take their application to New York courts for judicial review, with all protagonists under oath. Mrs. Grace Isabell Hammond Conners, who gave them her Long Island estate, was fretting last week for an appeal to Governor...

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