Capsules

P: Even in tiny doses, hormones are enormously powerful. And in the minutest quantities, radioactive elements can be "watched" as they travel through the body. To combine these two virtues in a single substance, the National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases is sponsoring a project to manufacture about one gram (1/30 of an oz.) of radioactive cortisone. The Institute will put up $66,000 for Montreal's Charles E. Frosst & Co. to do the tricky manufacturing job of building cortisone with an atom of radioactive carbon-14 in Ring A of the molecule. As many as a hundred research outfits may get the stuff; one gram will be enough for 100,000 tracer doses. P: The shortage of nurses would not be half so bad if hospitals would stop using nurses for orderly jobs, said Marian J. Wright of Detroit's Harper Hospital. A survey showed that 27% of the hospitals studied use nurses to make empty beds, and 18% make them mop floors. P: The chance of recovery from schizophrenia, commonest of the serious mental illnesses, has almost doubled in 25 years, the National Association for Mental Health reported. In a survey of New York State institutions, it found a recovery rate (partial and total) of 55%, against 30% in 1928.

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