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_ _- Distillates,- - To a "Committee of Fourteen," HEW Secretary Hobby last month entrusted a big job: evaluate the adequacy of Federal pure food and drug law enforcement. For such a study, the 83rd Congress set aside $21,000. On the committee, which includes outstanding educators, a jurist, and industry leaders, are Universi t y of Colorado Pharmacy Dean Charles F. Poe, Robert A. Hardt, Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. vice-president, and the A.P.M.A.'s attorney Charles Wesley Dunn.
+ Meanwhile, HEW was setting up two other special projects, one, an advisory council on vocational rehabilitation, the other, a group of 19 pediatricians charged with finding out whether isoniazid will prevent development of tuberculous meningitis in children with first-infection TB. Among those named to the council on physically handicapped was Theodore G. Klumpp, president of Winthrop-Stearns Inc.
+ Civil Service Commission is interviewing registered pharmacists for VA work. Starting salaries range from $4,205 to $5,500. To qualify, applicants must be graduates of approved schools of pharmacy and currently registered. For positions paying $5,060 and above, two years of professional experience or a two-year pharmacy residency is required.
+ Dr. Hugh Rodman Leavell has been chosen presidentelect of National Health Council, made up of nearly 50 health February, 1955
organizations including A.PH.A. Dr. Leavell's background: member of the Hoover Commission medical team, LatinAmerican tour for the State Department, stint in Europe for U.N., now head of Public Health Practice of Harvard School of Public Health.
+ Pharmaceutical economic analyst H. W. Adkins, in his new booklet, " Let's Improve Drugstore Personnel," outlines a series of meetings aimed at bettering personnel relations. The booklet is available by writing Crandon Wholesale Drug Company, .Miami, Fla
+ For the first time since 1950, freshman pharmacy college enrollment is on the rise. American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy notes Fall of 1954 enrollment increased 8.1 per cent over the preceding year.
+ More men are hospitalized than women, according to a new AMA survey. Findings show in 1953 there were 1,206,592 persons in 6,539 of the nation's 6,840 registered hospitals. In this group, men predominated by 77,720.
+ Five scientists- one with AEC, the others with the Navy - have come up with a watchcharm radiation measuring device. Called dosimeters, the inexpensive plastic lockets can measure from 10 to 600 roentgens of radiation. More than , a million of the dosimeters are going to the military. GI's will be able to wear them on dog-tag chains.
What are your chanCeS of getting cancer? About one in four, says the American Cancer Society, which this year is asking $24 million to expand its research, education, and service. The all-out drive will reach its peak in April-designated Cancer Conttol Month by President Eisenhower.
+ Eleventh annual Seminar Lecture Series for Pharmacists, sponsored by Northern New Jersey Branch of A. PH.A. and Rutgers University College of Pharmacy, will open March 2 at New Jersey State University. Lectures, scheduled for the first four Wednesdays of March, will deal with new drugs and economics.
+ Dr. Albert Schw~itzer, Nobel prize winner and newly-turned octogenarian, recently paid tribute to American pharmacy. Use of American drugs, he said, "produced a miracle" in treating leprosy in the jungle. Later, using sulfones developed in the U.S., he found "after a few weeks the sores became cleaner, and after some months they closed completely .... "
+ Best way to "cure" a faint is simply to leave the victim lying fiat, says Dr. Alfred Soffer of New York. In an AMA report, Dr. Soffer pointed out that a faint actually is a cure in itself .... it's nature's way of giving the body a short adjustment interval to recover from sudden changes in blood movement. "Contrary to popular belief," he said, "heart disease is rarely responsible for fainting." 71
+ Meanwhile, HEW was setting up two other special projects, one, an advisory council on vocational rehabilitation, the other, a group of 19 pediatricians charged with finding out whether isoniazid will prevent development of tuberculous meningitis in children with first-infection TB. Among those named to the council on physically handicapped was Theodore G. Klumpp, president of Winthrop-Stearns Inc.
+ Civil Service Commission is interviewing registered pharmacists for VA work. Starting salaries range from $4,205 to $5,500. To qualify, applicants must be graduates of approved schools of pharmacy and currently registered. For positions paying $5,060 and above, two years of professional experience or a two-year pharmacy residency is required.
+ Dr. Hugh Rodman Leavell has been chosen presidentelect of National Health Council, made up of nearly 50 health February, 1955
organizations including A.PH.A. Dr. Leavell's background: member of the Hoover Commission medical team, LatinAmerican tour for the State Department, stint in Europe for U.N., now head of Public Health Practice of Harvard School of Public Health.
+ Pharmaceutical economic analyst H. W. Adkins, in his new booklet, " Let's Improve Drugstore Personnel," outlines a series of meetings aimed at bettering personnel relations. The booklet is available by writing Crandon Wholesale Drug Company, .Miami, Fla
+ For the first time since 1950, freshman pharmacy college enrollment is on the rise. American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy notes Fall of 1954 enrollment increased 8.1 per cent over the preceding year.
+ More men are hospitalized than women, according to a new AMA survey. Findings show in 1953 there were 1,206,592 persons in 6,539 of the nation's 6,840 registered hospitals. In this group, men predominated by 77,720.
+ Five scientists- one with AEC, the others with the Navy - have come up with a watchcharm radiation measuring device. Called dosimeters, the inexpensive plastic lockets can measure from 10 to 600 roentgens of radiation. More than , a million of the dosimeters are going to the military. GI's will be able to wear them on dog-tag chains.
What are your chanCeS of getting cancer? About one in four, says the American Cancer Society, which this year is asking $24 million to expand its research, education, and service. The all-out drive will reach its peak in April-designated Cancer Conttol Month by President Eisenhower.
+ Eleventh annual Seminar Lecture Series for Pharmacists, sponsored by Northern New Jersey Branch of A. PH.A. and Rutgers University College of Pharmacy, will open March 2 at New Jersey State University. Lectures, scheduled for the first four Wednesdays of March, will deal with new drugs and economics.
+ Dr. Albert Schw~itzer, Nobel prize winner and newly-turned octogenarian, recently paid tribute to American pharmacy. Use of American drugs, he said, "produced a miracle" in treating leprosy in the jungle. Later, using sulfones developed in the U.S., he found "after a few weeks the sores became cleaner, and after some months they closed completely .... "
+ Best way to "cure" a faint is simply to leave the victim lying fiat, says Dr. Alfred Soffer of New York. In an AMA report, Dr. Soffer pointed out that a faint actually is a cure in itself .... it's nature's way of giving the body a short adjustment interval to recover from sudden changes in blood movement. "Contrary to popular belief," he said, "heart disease is rarely responsible for fainting." 71