¶ The Food & Drug Administration authorized the general use, on any doctor's prescription, of isoniazid (short name for the hydrazide of isonicotinic acid), the new anti-T.B. drug (TIME, March 3). So great has been the public demand for the drug that Macy's promptly advertised a supply of it in the New York Times.
¶ Encouraged because a few types of cancer have responded in the last dozen years to treatment with drugs, Manhattan's Memorial Center opened a special 42-bed ward for the systematic testing of dozens of new chemicals and a few viruses on volunteer patients who cannot be helped...
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