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Relatively few students have visited University Health Services here this past week and although many students have had viral respiratory illnesses, few actual cases of influenza have turned up, Dr. Sholem Postel, acting director of UHS, said yesterday...
Otherwise, for the Crimson, Noel Scidmore and Peter Fitzsimmons turned in particularly noteworthy performances as they finished eighteenth and twentyfourth. Scidmore ran yesterday for the first time since recovering from a bout with viral pneumonia and Fitzsimmons, all-Ivy as a freshman and sophomore, competed for the first time in 1977, a year in which he has been sidelined with tendonitis...
...main feature of Harvard's win was surprise, the kind of surprise that results from unexpected excellance on the part of junior team members and unknowns. Despite the loss of junior Marc Meyer, who sprained an ankle on Thursday, and promising freshman Noel Seidmore, who began a bout with viral pneumonia last week, the new and unknown names of Finn, Leftus and McCroskey saved the day by filling out the roster of top Crimson finishers...
Researchers seeking the cause of multiple sclerosis, a disabling disease involving damage to the protective sheathing around nerve fibers, have long suspected that the answer might lie in a delayed reaction to a viral infection contracted years in the past. One suspect has been the measles virus, but 90% or more of all Americans in the prevaccination era got measles, while only a fraction of 1% developed MS. Now three New Jersey physicians have developed preliminary data suggesting that exposure to pet dogs may be related...
...biomedicine. The Chinese were well informed about what their Western colleagues were doing. They religiously read such scientific publications as the British Nature and the U.S. Science. The visiting scientists were impressed by the work the Chinese have been doing in protein synthesis, in the use of insect and viral agents to replace chemical pesticides, and in trying to find the scientific basis of acupuncture as an anesthetic. Says Biophysicist Floyd Ratliff: "Their work in neurophysiology is very good, comparable to that in the West...