¶ The Texas Board of Medical Examiners won a substantial but incomplete victory over Harry M. Hoxsey, no M.D., who has attracted thousands of cancer victims to his clinic for treatments which, say medical experts, are useless or worse. District Judge Charles E. Long Jr. issued an injunction barring Hoxsey from 1) practicing medicine in Texas, 2) conducting a business known as the Hoxsey Cancer Clinic, and 3) collecting fees for services to clinic patients treated before May 1, 1957. Unfulfilled was the board's request that the court invalidate a lease agreement between Hoxsey and Dr. (of osteopathy) Harry Taylor, who now runs the clinic, pays Hoxsey a rental of $2,500 a month or 50% of patients' fees, whichever is greater.
¶ Fifteen scientists and two laymen who contributed most to the conquest of polio were named by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis to be honored in a hall of fame to be unveiled at Warm Springs, Ga. Leading the list of scientists is Jacob von Heine, first to describe the disease clearly in a book published in Stuttgart in 1840; windup man is inevitably Jonas E. Salk. The laymen: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Foundation President Basil O'Connor.
¶ An international research team (including Boston's Dr. Paul Dudley White and Minneapolis' Dr. Ancel Keys) pursued the relationship between different kinds of dietary fat and heart disease. They checked men living in Calabria and Crete, who get nearly all their fat from olive oil. Among 657 rural Cretans aged 45 to 65 there were only two with evidence of heart attacks. A similar sample of Americans, whose diet includes large amounts of animal fats, would show about 60 cases.