One of the newest and most hopeful weapons in the fight against polio is a blood fraction called gamma globulin. Doctors have known for several years that it is a rich storehouse of disease-fighting ...

PITTSBURGH, Aug. 28 – Gamma globulin, a type of antibody isolated from blood samples that used to be routinely given to health care workers and international travelers to protect them from infectious ...

The number of poliomyelitis cases reported in the U.S. as a whole was running about 8% ahead of last year: 2,543 cases since the disease year began April 1, as against 2,361. Local health officers ...

IN the October 4, 1945, issue of the Journal, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health announced the initiation of a program for the provision of blood and blood derivatives without cost to the ...

LABORATORY methods for the detection of early renal involvement in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus are not satisfactory. Pathologic changes of early lupus nephritis have been found in ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. researchers may have found a new way to use an old therapy to fight pinkeye, a common but pesky eye infection. Gamma globulin, an antibody-rich component of human blood once ...

GAMMA globulin can be demonstrated by the fluorescent antibody technique in some biopsy specimens of the left atrial appendage from patients with rheumatic heart disease and also post mortem in the ...