Stepping Up T.B. Drug Output
LONDON. Cabinet has agreed to mass production of the drug streptomycin, according to the Daily Express, after the Medical Research Council issued a cautiously worded report which suggested that the drug was effective against certain types of lung tuberculosis, and tubercular meningitis. The Daily Express says the Supply’ Minister (Mr John Wilmot) has asked the firm manufacturing streptomycin to aim at producing 50,000 grams a month by the middle of 1948—enough to treat 600 patients. The Minister for Health (Mr Aneurin Bevan) told Parliament recently that despite American evidence of the effectiveness of the drug it would be unwise for the Government to encourage wide production until British results were available. However this view is known to have been criticised at a recent hush-hush meeting cf the BMA. Streptomycin, discovered in 1945 by Dr F. A. Waksman, and Mr H. B. Woodruff in America, is a white powder extracted from a mould living in the soil.
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Northern Advocate, 8 September 1947, Page 4
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