Word: researchers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...drugs fit into these so-called opiate receptors like a key into a lock. Once in the lock, the drugs are able to dampen pain signals to the brain. Snyder then went on to map the distribution of the receptors in the brain. Kosterlitz and Hughes expanded on the research. They wondered why the body should evolve receptors for foreign narcotics; perhaps the body produced its own opiates. In 1975 they discovered and isolated two such compounds from pig brains and dubbed them enkephalins (from the Greek words for in the head...
...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...
...director of Ralph Nader's Health Research Group, Dr. Sydney Wolfe has prodded federal agencies into protecting the public against a number of health hazards, from Red Dye No. 2 to chloroform. Though Wolfe's critics grudgingly acknowledge his effectiveness, they maintain that he is overzealous. Last week Wolfe gave critics some new ammunition...
Kaplan stresses his permanency and non-enfranchisement policy in order to separate himself from fly-by-night operators. A full-time research staff in his national headquarters in New York continually revamps course material. Kaplan pioneered the learning-through-tapes method. His approach, then, is three pronged--students attend class, receive 50 hours of homework, and have access to over 60 hours of tapes and practice tests on a daily basis...