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On 30 March 1941 Dr. Frank E. Adair, chairman of the executive committee of the American Society for the Control of Cancer, reported a 30 percent increase in cures of operable breast cancer from 1920 to 1935.

Drs. Herbert D. Adams and Leo V. Hand of Boston announced on 6 January 1942 the revival of a man whose heart had stopped beating for twenty minutes during a lung operation.

University of IIllinois professor Dr. H. W. Anderson announced on 15 August 1945 that the drug streptomycin might surpass penicillin in effectiveness.

Dr. George C. Andrews of New York Presbyterian Hospital said on 7 April 1941 that "smoker's cancer" of the lower lip was not from smoking but was a result of a chronic inflammation of the lower lip from habitual sunburn.

On 5 May 1949 Dr. Oswald Avery of Nashville received the Passano Prize for isolating pneumonia germs and classifying the...

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