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...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...
Prestigious Prize. Last week the public health officers who waged that heroic global effort received one of medicine's highest accolades. The Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation awarded a special prize to the World Health Organization (WHO) in recognition of its decade-long smallpox-eradication program. Even while they were accepting the prestigious $10,000 award in Manhattan last week, WHO Director-General Halfdan Mahler of Denmark and the Cleveland-born chief of the eradication program, Dr. Donald A. Henderson, were in touch with aides in the East African nation of Somalia, where the last two known cases...
...Honored for clinical research were Pharmacologists Raymond P. Ahlquist of the Medical College of Georgia and Dr. J.W. Black of University College of London. Their work led to the development of the drug propranolol (Inderal), which the Lasker jurors, headed by Heart Surgeon Michael DeBakey, hailed as one of the most important drugs of the century for its role in the treatment of high blood pressure (hypertension) and heart disease, the nation's No. 1 killer...
...Cited for basic research was Rosalyn S. Yalow of the Bronx Veterans Administration Hospital, both the first woman and first nuclear physicist to win a Lasker prize. Together with the late Dr. Solomon A. Berson, she developed a sophisticated new tool called radioimmunoassay (RIA) for measuring minuscule quantities of pharmacological and biological substances. Using radioactive isotopes as tracers in antigen-antibody reactions, the technique is becoming increasingly important in everything from diagnosing disease to finding poisons in murder victims...