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...most striking advance in the biological sciences in this century has been the cracking of the genetic code." After that ringing statement, Pediatrician Robert E. Cooke's address at the 75th anniversary celebration of Baltimore's prestigious Johns Hopkins Hospital took on a different tone: "The application of these findings to man's improvement has resulted in a negative contribution." No man could have been more anxious to see hope of positive gain in the genetic findings. Dr. Cooke, 43, has two children handicapped by mental retardation, some forms of which are now known to be linked...
...spider man in the freak show and the gangling giant on the basketball court may have a common bond. Marfan's syndrome, first recognized in 1896 by French Pediatrician Bernard-Jean Antonin Marfan, is marked by excessive long-bone growth; it gives people elongated arms, legs, fingers and toes, angular heads and faces. One of the surest signs of Marfan's syndrome is a condition known as arachnodactyly-a spidery hand with long, slender fingers of exceptional dexterity. Many such people succumb to some form of heart disease early in life. One suspected Marfan type who escaped this...
...main job of a pediatrician is not to cure normal diseases--the children do that themselves--but rather to reassure the mother. This, in America, is a terribly difficult job." Difficult or not, the speaker, Dr. Benjamin Spock, could claim phenomenal success at the task. Known to countless young parents as the author of Baby and Child Care, he is the most famous baby-doctor in America today...
...Stuart Hughes, professor of History and a candidate last fall for the U.S. Senate, has been named co-chairman of the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy, a SANE spokesman announced yesterday. His appointment, along with that of Dr. Benjamin Spock, the pediatrician, was confirmed in New York by the peace group's executive board...
...from medical researchers in the past few years, bedside doctors still find it bafflingly difficult to deal with the disease, which involves both the lungs and the digestive tract. It is not for lack of trying: they are using a dozen or more different drugs and other treatments. Now, Pediatrician Herman W. Reas of St. Louis Children's Hospital has found that boosting the patient's breathing efficiency twice a day with a new aerosol drug eases his distress and promotes his general health...