The additional safety techniques now required in the production of the Salk vaccine for polio make today's vaccine absolutely safe. If all children under 15 years of age are given polio shots before the 1956 polio season sets in, the rate of paralytic polio will be cut in half.
The noise surrounding the city-dwellers today is affecting the hearing of some of them.
Chest pains, which occur after exertion and disappear after rest, could well be associated with heart trouble.
These are some of the things the speakers talked about at Tuesday's sessions of the New Orleans Graduate Medical Assembly convention at the Municipal Auditorium. The convention, which is attracting more than 2000 physicians to the city, will last through Thursday. In addition to general sessions, Tuesday's programs included operations on color television, round-table luncheons, and visits to technical and scientific exhibits.
Extra Safety Measures Dr. G. Foard McGinnes, Washington, D. C, medical consultant and director of the vaccine program for the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, expressed the belief that today's Salk vaccine is absolutely safe.
Following the incident of the Cutter vaccine, when some youngsters who received it developed polio, the US Public Health Service revised specifications to add extra safety techniques to future production of the vaccine, said the physician.
... Presiding at Tuesday's sessions were Drs. C. J. Tripoli, Lee D. McLean, Sam Hobson, Daniel N. Silverman, Robert C. Kelleher, Robert A. Matthews, Edwin A. So-colo, Andrew V. Friedrichs, Louis J. Bristow Jr., Homer J. Dupuy and W. P. Gardiner.
