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...Sidney Farber, who founded the cancer institute in 1942, treated Mayer during his battle with leukemia, until Mayer's death in 1947. Farber, a Harvard pathologist and physician, was the first doctor to use chemotherapy successfully against childhood leukemia...
...across the border. The USDA employs 1,000 inspectors at 85 ports of entry nationwide. At J.F.K. ten officials examine as many as 2,000 crates of flowers, vegetables, seeds and cuttings every day and pass any pests they find to an insect identifier, a botanist and a plant pathologist for cataloging. An additional 60 inspectors are assigned to the airport's five international- arrivals areas, where they watch for illegal agricultural material in the bags of passengers filing through Customs. But increased travel and shipping have strained these resources. In the past decade the number of passengers entering...
Center stage last week, however, belonged to Dr. Maria Byrdy, a retired pathologist who conducted the autopsy on Popieluszko after his body was pulled from the Vistula River reservoir. Speaking to a rapt audience, Byrdy, 75, stated that contrary to her previous opinion, she found it impossible to determine specifically what had been the cause of Popieluszko's death...
...disaster threatens to paralyze the $1.2 billion Florida citrus business. Says Stephen Poe, a plant pathologist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture: "Of every disease that affects the citrus industry, canker is the most destructive." In a swift, ruthless effort to halt the epidemic, the state began emergency burning. It is the only reliable means of eradicating the disease. Ward's and the other four nurseries are being entirely torched; so are any seedlings recently purchased from those nurseries, along with any surrounding trees. By year's end many millions of plants will have been incinerated, leaving dozens...
...they plan to begin animal tests of the vaccine by the end of the year. A gametocyte vaccine is being developed by Dr. Richard Carter at NIH, but much work remains to be done. An experimental vaccine for all three stages may be only a decade away, according to Pathologist Sydney Cohen of Guy's Hospital medical school in London. "If it is very effective," he says, "malaria eventually will be eradicated like smallpox...