¶Dental injections with improperly sterilized needles are frequently responsible for the transmission of hepatitis, warned Dr. Francis Foley and Dr. Ralph Gutheim of the Rochester (N.Y.) General Hospital. During a two-year study the doctors detected 15 cases of hepatitis that had been transmitted during the injection of procaine before a tooth extraction. Three of the cases were fatal.
¶Sloan-Kettering Institute's Director Dr. Cornelius P. Rhoads announced that he and fellow researchers had confirmed the long-suspected existence of a "cancer-immune mechanism" in normal human cells. In a series of tests at Ohio Penitentiary begun last spring (TIME, June 4), laboratory-cultivated human cancer...
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