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...Infection with what is awkwardly called cytomegalic inclusion disease (it has no familiar name) is hard to distinguish from other sniffles and fevers, but may cause babies to be born with virtually no skull or brain cortex, reports Boston's Dr. Thomas H. Weller, a Nobel prizewinner for his work on the polio virus. Some infant victims appear almost normal at birth, but then become microcephalic ("pinheads") because their skulls fail to grow...
Thomas H. Weller, Richard Pearson Strong Professor of Tropical Public Health, and Franklin A. Neva, associate professor of Tropical Public Health, were awarded the grant by the United Cerebral Palsy Research and Educational Foundation...
...confronting these cliched, silly estimates of what happened in Cuba, Warren Miller's new novel undertakes an important job. Stylistically, however, the-author dissipates his energy in a sluggish attempt at parable as he describes Jonathan Weller, a wealthy, purposeless North American, adrift in Havana during the winter of '58-'59. Driving relentlessly toward the city is Revolution, a process that will free Havana of a mortification so extensive that Weller fails to sense its reality. And in this kind of blindness, in assuming that a nation can exist as a playground for him and his, Weller stumbles toward...
Enders shared the Nobel Prize for and Physiology in 1954 with his Dr. Frederick C. Robbins and Dr. Thomas H. Weller. Their success in poliomyelitis virus in cultures of from human embryos made possible the development of vaccines to combat the disease...
Chicken Pox. Essentially the same virus also causes shingles. First grown in test tubes in 1953 in John F. Enders' lab by Dr. Thomas Weller, who has since devised diagnostic tests, hopes for future preventives...