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...AFP testing "has been going on in the U.S. in private programs for quite some time," Holmes said, but he and Erbe agreed the demand for prenatal diagnosis is definitely on the rise...
...development of a new technique that can determine whether observed AFP levels are attributable to neural tube defects or to other possible causes has improved the effectiveness of the genetic screening process, Holmes said...
Because the laboratories cooperating with the Erbe and Holmes effort antedate the regulation, they can continue AFP testing without waiting for FDA approval. These research centers include the Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center in Waltham, where Dr. Aubrey Millunsky, assistant professor of Pediatrics, has been directing AFP testing since 1973, and the Foundation for Blood Research in Scar-borough, Maine...
...flurry of speculation was touched off when the Press Trust of India issued a story stating that Brezhnev had temporarily "taken leave of his responsibilities." Misinterpreting this dispatch, the French news agency AFP reported that Brezhnev had actually resigned. This sent Moscow-based correspondents scurrying round the capital, vainly trying to obtain confirmation. Just as the resignation rumors were subsiding for lack of evidence, another one surfaced when an unidentified Communist diplomat in Warsaw was quoted as saying that Brezhnev had suffered a heart attack last month-just before he vanished from public view. Some Kremlin watchers favored yet another...