Word: fetal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...revival of interest in the existence of what doctors call fetal alcohol syndrome was spurred in 1973, when Drs. Kenneth Jones and David Smith at the University of Washington School of Medicine reported in the Lancet on eight children with similar birth and growth defects. Their investigation revealed that all were born to mothers who were chronic alcoholics...
...defense attorney for the three doctors indicted last year in connection with fetal experimentation at Boston City Hospital said yesterday that if the case goes to trial, it will probably not be until fall...
Newman A. Flanagan, the Suffolk County assistant district attorney who successfully prosecuted Dr. Kenneth C. Edelin for manslaughter, said this week that he will also argue the commonwealth's case in the fetal experimentation indictments of four Boston City Hospital researchers...
Flanagan conducted the investigation at BCH in the fall of 1973 that produced the Edelin indictment--an investigation prompted by the four doctors' publication in the June 1973 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine of a study they had done using cultures of fetal tissue...
...Harvard doctors who were indicted one year ago in connection with fetal experimentation will have their defense paid for by Harvard under an agreement worked out shortly after the indictment, Daniel Steiner, '54, general counsel to the University, explained this week...