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Last week three researchers at the Albany Medical Center offered a surprisingly accurate answer. And, oddly, that answer was developed as a byproduct of one of the few forms of therapy that can now be started while a baby is still in the womb. When incompatibility of the Rh blood factor between mother and child is serious enough, even a massive transfusion of blood immediately after birth is sometimes too late to save the child. And for such cases doctors have worked out a delicate technique for transfusion in utero. Before they try such major treatment, however, they insert...
...tough, uncompromising democrat of 70, unfazed by the horrors of defeat (he had witnessed the decline of both Bismarck and the Kaiser). When the Gestapo released him during the Götterdämmerung of the Allied advance, Adenauer trekked circuitously through the flooded Rhineland to his home at Rhöndorf, then sat out a vicious artillery duel between U.S. troops at the Remagen bridgehead and Wehrmacht gunners who were dug in directly behind his house. Walking in his garden one Sunday, Adenauer came under fire. "About 300 yards away, I saw a shell hurtling towards me," he writes...
...Rh Factor. Such investigations into the causes and treatment of mental retardation are being greatly intensified. But the Kennedy Foundation's current awards, totaling a lavish $200,000, went for research done long ago and for work in caring for the millions of current victims. The winners...
...Alexander S. Wiener and Philip Levine, whose parallel work in New York City showed that the Rh factor is a major source of blood incompatibility, and that this incompatibility may in turn cause irreversible brain damage (personal awards of $6,250 each...
...Louis K. Diamond of Boston and Cornell University's Dr. Fred H. Allen Jr., for developing the technique of total replacement of a newborn baby's blood to avert the effects of Rh incompatibility (to each, $6,250 plus $25,000 for more research...