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...Gerber Products and Baker Laboratories funded an interesting study to determine the appropriate quantity of a certain fatty acid to be put in their baby foods. The study--conducted at the University of Texas--involved depriving mostly black infants of linoleic acid, a component of milk necessary for growth and development. Because the black babies were apparently all orphaned and wards of the state, no consent was awarded in the babies' interests. The few white infants, children of interns, served as the "controls" receiving the normal diet of the essential nutrient...
...number six Harvard's Chip Beard turned back Rich Gerber 6-3, 6-2. The Crimson's Ken Lindner lost to Penn's Steve Yellin 6-1, 6-4, and Tom Loring at number four dropped two 7-6 matches to Harry Benham to give the Crimson its two losses in singles...
Disclosure of the studies involving infants stemmed from the investigative work of Dr. Alvin F. Poussaint, associate dean of Student Affairs. He called the two studies -- funded by Gerber Products and Baker Laboratories -- "abuse to satisfy mere curiosity" and warned that these were not isolated instances. But he is apparently the only individual at the Medical School who has been actively lobbying for Federal controls of experimentation with human subjects...
Poussaint called the two studies funded by Baker Laboratories and Gerber Products "abuse to satisfy mere curiosity" and warned that these were not isolated instances of such mistreatment...
Medical symptoms aside, the child born of an addicted mother may have problems far beyond the physical. "Usually an addicted mother is narcissistic, dependent, hostile and often a lesbian," explains Dr. Judianne Densen-Gerber, founder and executive director of the Odyssey House drug rehabilitation agency. "Usually she has no concept of how to be a mother. I've known pregnant addicts who live by prostitution to turn a trick even after the onset of labor pains...