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P:Encouraged by the first year's results with isoniazid (especially when given along with streptomycin or PAS), New York City officials announced an ambitious program to bring every known tuberculosis case under treatment. Outpatient care will help those waiting for hospital beds and will make it possible to send patients home sooner but keep them under treatment; it will also be good for many of the balky ones who refuse hospitalization.

P:To satisfy oculists who wanted sunglasses made darker, and to meet the Army-Navy Vision Committee's preference for glasses that do not distort colors, the L. J. Houze Convex Glass Co. announced an all-purpose "Natural View" lens. The result of years of testing chemical combinations to get the right color, the glass can be made into drugstore models or ground into prescription lenses.

P:To hold the patents on staff members' discoveries in medicine and public health, Harvard University set up a special nonprofit corporation called Protein Foundation Inc., with Chester I. Barnard, onetime telephone tycoon (New Jersey Bell) and later head of the Rockefeller Foundation, as chairman. Much of its work will involve patents taken out by Biochemist Edwin J. Cohn, the world's top authority on blood fractions, relating to gamma globulin and methods of collecting and preserving blood substances.

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