Medicine: Reversible Death
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A Chicago Medical School biochemist at the Moscow congress had encouraging news for victims of hay fever caused by ragweed pollens. Dr. A. Robert Goldfarb said that he has isolated from the dwarf ragweed a single protein that seems to be the concentrated source of the pollen's power to cause allergic reactions. Most shots against hay fever are made from the entire pollen particle. Dr. Goldfarb argues that this unnecessarily overloads the body with the task of making antibodies against many different substances. Separation of the individual protein should make it easier to prepare more effective immunizing injections. Most of the 10 million U.S. ragweed sufferers get relief from antihistamines, but many severe cases need shots.
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