N.Z. May Soon Hate New Rheumatism Drug
AUO&LAND, AltgilSt 23. It might be possible fpr tlie new > drug lised in the treatinent of rlieumatbid arthritiS' ahd rheiimatiO fevef, to be made in New Zealand ih about a year, kaid Dr: John MclVI. MenneU of Auckland, who xeturned by air to- - day aftfer giving lectures in the United States. Dr. Mennell was at the Mayo cliiiic-itt Minnesota ht the time when the new drug was being developed. There was no doubt.aboui the success of the compound, he sai'd, but its expensivenes's^ was at present the ' limiting factor to its wide use. AS' - .far as was known at th'is stage, th'e \ drug had to. he used con'stahtiy biit it was hope A later to firid soiiie way in which a. cufe , could be effect ed and treatment stopped. It woiild probabiy • be a year before it.was manhfactiir- ' ed commercially. Dr. Mennell went to Anierica in May at the invitation of the lntef national Congress of Rheuihati'c DiSeases in New York, to give an address at its conference at which 49 eouhtries took part. He later toured the United States and visited Britain. '
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Chronicle (Levin), 24 August 1949, Page 5
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