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During the past nine years, 51 medical pioneers and 16 medical groups-responsible for wide areas of public health or working on diseases that are the commonest causes of death-have received gold copies of the Victory of Samothrace plus $1,000 in cash. These medical Oscars are the tokens of the annual, prestigious Lasker Awards, founded by the late Advertising Magnate Albert D. Lasker and his wife Mary and awarded by the American Public Health Association. Of the 51 individual recipients so far, seven have gone on to win Nobel Prizes.* Announced last week were the tenth-year winners...
Thus does famed Pediatrician Benjamin Spock describe his own childhood in his new book, Feeding Your Baby and Child, written with Nutritionist Miriam E. Lowenberg (Duell, Sloan & Pearce; $3.75). Young Ben Spock's individual difficulties with food were the commonest kind: he was "something of a feeding problem," "very squeamish about lumps in cereal and scum on cocoa," and could not eat summer squash for 35 years because his mother forced it down him at the age of five...
Other successes were scored against heart disease caused by diphtheria and syphilis, both virtually wiped out. Another form of the enemy is being routed largely through penicillin: rheumatic heart disease. But the situation is more complex in regard to the two commonest forms of heart trouble, which account for more than 90% of all heart disease...
...Arteriosclerosis (artery hardening), of which atherosclerosis (mushiness and hardening) is one of the commonest forms, and the most dangerous because it so often occurs in the heart's own arteries, the coronaries...
Studies of 8,000 of the "worst cases" of delinquency at Bellevue show that the problem always has several causes. The commonest of these are: "Gross deprivation of love, severe punishment and brutality at home, enforced submissiveness and isolation, learning difficulties and organic disorders-especially of the central nervous system." True enough, some of these causes involve the home, but it takes a combination of several, said Dr. Bender, to push "a particular child along the road to delinquency." Even under such a malign constellation, some other factor is still needed to turn a child into a delinquent, Dr. Bender...