Word: lasker
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...substances such as heroin and morphine that are derived from opium. But only in the past few years have scientists understood why and how the human body responds to these drugs from the poppy plant. For contributing to that understanding, three men last week won the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation's prestigious Basic Medical Research Award...
...Lasker Foundation awarded two other 1978 prizes, each also worth $15,000. The Clinical Medical Research Award was shared by three scientists: Dr. Robert Austrian of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia, for developing a vaccine that could prevent three quarters of the nation's estimated 750,000 annual cases of pneumococcal pneumonia; Dr. Emil Gotschlich of Manhattan's Rockefeller University, who developed a vaccine that is 90% effective against meningococcal meningitis; and Dr. Michael Heidelberger of New York University, for research that helped produce both vaccines...
...selling as if buyers thought minks were becoming an endangered species and South Africa's mines were giving out. Reports John Eyler, merchandising manager for Oregon's Meier and Frank department stores: "We've never sold so much fine china or silver. It's selling like crazy." Adds Lasker Meyer, senior vice president of the Houston-based Foley's chain: "Our big-ticket items have been very strong...
...annual prizes given by the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation have become the most prestigious awards in American medicine-not so much because of what they pay but because of what they promise. Twenty-eight of the recipients have gone on to Stockholm and collected Nobel prizes. Now the imbalance is being corrected a little. Last week the 1977 Lasker prizes were given to five medical scientists, all but one of them Swedes...
...prize for clinical medical research went to Dr. Inge G. Edler, chief of cardiology at University Hospital in Lund, Sweden, and Biophysicist C. Hellmuth Hertz of the Lund Institute of Technology. Their pioneering accomplishment: the application of ultrasonics to diagnosing abnormalities of the heart. Hailed by the Lasker jurors as perhaps the most important nonsurgical tool for heart diagnosis since the development of the electrocardiograph, the technique uses the familiar sonar echo principle: high-frequency (and inaudible) sound waves reflected from a target reveal its characteristics. Echocardiography can, for example, measure heart-muscle thickness, detect valve abnormalities and even show...