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HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFAREJanuary 18, 1972Vol. XXIV, No. 2 NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH

Richardson Urges Better Administration;Asks 'Best Efforts of HEW Employees

"We intend to maintain and strengthen the role of NIH in the conductand support of basic research," declared HEW Secretary Elliot L.Richardson in response to a question posed by an NIH scientist.

The query followed a speechdelivered by the Secretary toHEW employees last December.

He cited the international rep-utation of NIH for excellence andsaluted both the intramural andextramural programs of NIH as"among the very best adminis-tered in Government."

The need for such expert ad-ministration, as well as the needto make HEW more responsive,were major points of the Secre-tary's address.Sees Sense of Coherency

Secy. Richardson saw a "senseof coherency . . . in our actions"concerning the responsiveness ofHEW to the people it serves.

"Institutions and their activ-ities, after all, do not exist fortheir own sakes; they exist forpeople.

"The great needs and high ex-pectations of those who use ourhuman service institutions requirethat these institutions be madeto work as efficiently and as ef-fectively as possible," he said.

"But none of this . . . amountsto a tinker's damn unless it isunderstood and supported by thepeople who have to make thewhole system work.

". . . the interrelationshipsamong our programs and activ-

Secy. Richardson said thai we arebreathtakingly close "to realizing thepromise of America . . . ."

ities are much more significantthan their divergences. The group-ing of these functions and activ-ities in a single Department is nothaphazard or arbitrary. We are

(See RICHARDSON, Page S)

Conference ParticipantsDiscuss PCB Chemistry,Effect on Human Health

The National Institute of En-vironmental H e a l t h Sciencessponsored an international con-ference, Dec. 20-21, on polychlori-nated biphenyls (PCB's). It washeld at the Quail Roost Confer-ence Center, Rougemont, N.C.,near NIEHS in Research Tri-angle Park.

Conference participants, whocame from the U.S., Canada, Swe-den, the Netherlands, Germany,and Japan, discussed the chemis-try of PCB's and their effect onhuman health.

The researchers also spoke onhow these chemicals are dissemi-nated in the environment, the re-sults of contamination in wildlifeand humans, and the substitutionof possible alternatives in placeof PCB's, which have been usedfor more than 40 years.

The PCB's are liquids that areresistant to heat, and for thisreason are heavily utilized in in-dustry. They are used as dielectricfluids for capacitors and trans-formers; industrial fluids forhydraulic, gas turbine and vacu-um pump uses; heat transferfluids, and plasticizers.

(See PCB CONFERENCE, Page 7)

Dr. Sinsheimer Gives NIHLecture Tomorrow at CC

Dr. Robert L. Sinsheimerwill deliver the NIH Lecturetomorrow (Wednesday, Jan.19), at 8:15 p.m., in theJack Masur Auditorium, CC.

Dr. Sinsheimer, who isChairman, Division of Biol-ogy, California Institute ofTechnology, will speak on"The Replication of Single-Stranded DNA Bacterio-phages: Facts and Riddles."

Dr. J. E. Rail, director ofIntramural Research, Na-tional Institute of Arthritisand Metabolic Diseases, ishost for the lecture.

Clinical Centers Asked to Join ProgramOn Hypertension; Termed Top Priority

The National Heart and Lung Institute is inviting other clinicalcenters to join the nine already cooperating in the Hypertension De-tection and Follow-up Program which it announced last August.

With the addition of from three —;—to six more centers, the program "^r a r e a -will enter its second major phase T h u s e a c h c e n t e r c a n s c r e e n

—to determine the efficacy of an- 8>000 t o 1 2 ' 0 0 0 Pe°Ple> a S e d 3 0 t o

tihypertensive therapy for 10,500 69> t o d e t e c t *he estimated 800 topersons who are found to have }>000 w h o w o u l d b e expected tohypertension in communities par- h a v e hypertension m each popu-ticipating in this program. l a t l o n &™P that is screened.

This is one of the three pro- The first phase, still in prog-grams which Dr. Theodore ress, is concerned with determin-Cooper, NHLI Director, singled ing methods for detecting the ap-out in December for "highest im- proximately 10,500 persons, frommediate priority," from the 44 all areas, who are expected toprograms recommended by the have high blood pressure (aver-NHLI Task Force on Arterio- aging higher than 95 mm Hg,sclerosis. diastolic).

Most of the program's clinical I n phase II of the program, thecenters will be working with a centers will collaborate in de-population in a geographically de- (See HYPERTENSION, Page s)

Dr. Dennis Named ChiefOf NHLI s Med. DevicesApplications Program

Dr. Clarence Dennis, interna-tionally known surgeon and pioneerin the development and clinicalapplication of heart-lung machinesand related techniques of cardio-respiratory assistance, has beennamed chief of the National Heartand Lung Institute's Medical De-vices Applications Program.

Dr. Dennis will direct a pro-gram of contract-supported re-search and development activitiesconcerned with the design, testing,and evaluation of circulatory-as-sisit devices and techniques, in-cluding total heart replacements.

The program also sponsors de-vices to provide respiratory as-sistance to victims of acute orchronic lung disorders, and otherinstrumentation for diagnosis,monitoring, or relief of heart andlung diseases.

Dr. Dennis received his under-

Dr. Dennis is author or co-author ofmore than 160 scientific papers on avariety of surgical topics and on de-vices and techniques of heart-lungbypass.

graduate training at HarvardUniversity. He earned his M.D.degree at Johns Hopkins Univer-sity in 1935, and his Ph.D. inSurgery from the University ofMinnesota in 1940.

He remained at Minnesota until(See DR. DENNIS, Page B)

Page 2 January 18, 1972 THE NIH RECORD

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Editor Frances W. DavisAssistant Editor Fay LevieroStaff Writer Ed Driscoll

Staff Correspondents

ADA, Nelson Sparks; BHME/OD, Florence Foelak; CC, Ann Bain-bridge; DAHM, Laura Mae Kress; DBS, Faye Peterson; DCRT, JoanChase; DDH, Carolyn Niblett; DMI, Marian R. Fox; DN, Evelyn Laz-zari; DPHPE, Eleanor Wesolowski; DRG, Sue Meadows; DRR, JerryGordon; DRS, Robert Knickerbocker; FIC, Lois P. Meng; NCI, Eliza-beth Shollenberger; NEI, Julian Morris; NHLI, Bill Sanders; NIAID,Krin Larson; NIAMD, Katie Broberg; NICHD, Lloyd Blevins; NIDR,Sue Hannon; NIEHS, Elizabeth Y. James; NIGMS, Wanda Warddell;NIMH, Daniel Rice; NINDS, Anne Tisiker; NLM, Roger Gilkeson.

Health Careers in 70sDiscussed on Radio, TV

Representatives of NIH and theWashington Technical Instituterecently discussed minority re-cruitment—"Health Careers in the70's"—on a local television andradio program.

Panelists were: Dr. Jerome B.Block, associate director, ClinicalCenter; Donald C. Parks, assist-ant director for Administration,Division of Physician and HealthProfessions Education, BHME;Dr. William Bennett, Program co-

• ordinator, DPHPE, BHME, andDr. Annye C. Buck, chairman,Allied Health Science Department,WTI.

Needs for health manpowerpersonnel, general educational re-quirements, opportunities at theClinical Center, and programs for

Dr. Berv Featured as SoloistIn Mozart Concerto on Jan. 21

The NIH Orchestra will pre-sent a concert on Friday, Jan. 21,at 8:30 p.m., in the ClinicalCenter's Jack Masur Auditorium.The orchestra, sponsored by theR & W Association, will be con-ducted by John Gerschef ski.

Dr. Kenneth R. Berv, NIMH,will be featured as soloist inMozart's Concerto No. 3 forFrench Horn and Orchestra.Other numbers include An Out-door Overture, by Aaron Cop-land, Rumanian Folk Dances, byBela Bartok, and a Bach Chorale-Prelude.

study in WTI's Allied Health De-partment were discussed.

The program will be rebroad-cast over WFAN-TV (Channel14) sometime in February.

New Computer CoursesScheduled for Spring

Forty-two courses and seminarswill be given -this spring by theDivision of Computer ResearchTraining. The courses have beenscheduled by Rita Minker, Train-ing Unit, Computer CenterBranch.

New courses for the spring ses-sion include Introduction to Opti-mal Control Theory, and Time-sharing for Programmers.

Two courses that may be ofspecial interest to iscientists arealso on the agenda. They are:Applications of Computers inChemistry, and Decision Theoryin Medical Diagnosis: An Intro-duction.

The regular courses in pro-gramming languages, systemsanalysis and statistics are in-cluded for the coming semester.

Brochures with course descrip-tions and application procedureswill be distributed through B/I/DPersonnel Offices. The ComputerCenter Technical Information Of-fice, Ext. 65431, also has them.

Health Benefits Open SeasonExtended by CSC to Jan. 31

The Health Benefits ProgramOpen Season, previously sched-uled to end Dec. 31, was ex-tended by the Civil ServiceCommission to Jan. 31.

Eligible employees who wishto enroll or change enrollmentsmay contact their registrationassistants for instructions. Thenames and locations of assist-ants are listed on official NIHbulletin boards.

Panelists on "Health Careers in the 7 0 V were (I to r): Dr. Bennett, Mr. Parks,Dr. Buck, Dr. Block, and Anne Orleans, program moderator.

Steps Taken to ProtectR&W Postal Service

Measures have been taken toprevent a recurrence of the armedrobbery of the R & W Postal Serv-ice in the Clinical Center, whichtook place about 2:50 p.m. onDec. 22.

The FBI is investigating theincident in which some $3,500 wasstolen. The robber, who escaped,tried to prevent identification bypulling a turtleneck sweater overhis face so that only his eyescould be seen.

When pursued by a female em-ployee, he fired a warning shotinto the ceiling of the stairwell12a ding from the B-2 level.

Anyone who has information asto the identity of the robber isrequested to contact the office ofWillard Vincent, assistant direc-tor for Protection and SafetyManagement, OAS, Ext. 64755.

Because of its early Dec. 20deadline, due to the holidays, TheNIH Record was unable to reportthis incident in its Jan. 4 issue.

Virginia Burke has been appointedconsultant to the NIH Child Develop-ment Committee. Mrs. Burke, a grad-uate of Morgan State College with adegree in Sociology, has had extensiveexperience in directing day carecenter programs in Cambridge, Mass.,and New York.

Meetings Held in Many CitiesOn Nurse Training Act of 1971

Regional meetings on the pro-visions of the Nurse Training Actof 1971 have been scheduledthroughout the United States bythe Division of Nursing.

The first of the meetings willtake place tomorrow (Wednesday,Jan. 19), in Cambridge, Mass.Las Vegas, Nev. and Greensboro,N.C. Other meetings, scheduledthrough Jan. 28, will be held inlocations that include San Fran-cisco, Chicago, Cleveland, andDallas.

Deans of nursing schools, andrepresentatives of nursing or-ganizations will be among con-ference participants.

NIH Television, RadioProgram Schedule

RadioDISCUSSION NIH

WGMS, AM—570—FM Stereo103.5—Friday, about 9:15 p.m.

January 21Dr. Gerald S. Johnston, Clini-

«al CenterSubject: Nuclear Medicine

January 28Dr. George Kitzes, NIAMDSubject: Digestive DiseasesInterview is during intermis-

sion, Library of Congress con-certs.

TelevisionPANORAMA

(Ask the Doctor)WTTG-TV, Channel 5, 12:30p.m.

February 1Dr. Mortimer B. Lipsett,

NICHDSubject: Contraceptive Science

THE NIH RECORD January 18, 1972 Page 3

sickle ceil Anemia Program , Natural Inventive Genius, Is Helping George S. Parish NamedScientists to Understand Human Behavior Chief, New NEI Branch

A voluntary program to detectsickle cell anemia among NIHemployees in being initiated bythe Clinical Center.

The program will include threeimportant features: educationabout the disease and the fact thatit is an hereditary trait, bloodsample testing, and counseling.

A series of lectures and paneldiscussions will be given early inFebruary in the CC Jack MasurAuditorium.

Researchers at NIH andauthorities from other areas willpresent information on the pre-valence and implications of thedisease, testing procedures, treat-ment, and preventive measures.Employees will have an opportun-ity to attend the lectures.

Testing for the malady will be-gin about the middle of March.

A steering committee has beenappointed for the program whichis headed by Dr. George W.Shaffer, assistant chief of theEmployee Health Service.

NIH employees will be kept in-formed of further program de-velopments by EHS.

Martin Luther King'sBirthday Honored Here

Several commemorative activ-ities in honor of the late MartinLuther King's birthday, Jan. 15,were held last week at NIH.Events included the film, "I Havea Dream," the life story of Dr.King, which was shown in theJack Masur Auditorium of theClinical Center and in the West-wood Building.

A choral group, the Apostles ofSoul, also appeared on the campusand presented a group of songs.

On the last day of the activities,Thursday, Jan. 13, James Farmerspoke here, lauding Dr. King andhis ideals. Mr. Farmer was formerHEW Assistant Secretary forAdministration, and the formerDirector of CORE.

The start and finish of a successful engineering project. Rock—the mastermindhimself—sets up the pole ladder to circumvent wrap-around shock wires in-stalled 9 feet above ground. Success! Rock, Bandit and Gigi make it to thetopmost branches where sprouts the most succulent greenery to chew on.

Although he's only 6 years old, Rock is now giving evidence that hecould possibly qualify as a methods engineer in any industrial plant.

As a matter of fact, he could conceivably end up as a vice-presidentor even president of the firm ina very short time. in the

He has not only demonstrated broughtsuperior ingenuity and drive as abilities.compared to his peers, but he is He didn't like people peering atthe undisputed leader of his him through the glass. So he car-group, devising and executing en- ried a tree branch to the wall andgineering feats which would chal- stood it up vertically.

enclosure wall finallyout Rock's mechanical

Dr. Robert Q. Morston, NIH Director,receives the first R&W membershipcard in his office. It was presented tohim by Leonard D. Weiford, Jr., R&Wmanager, and Joseph Milliard Brown,president of the organization.

lenge any other high IQ men-tality.

Rock is a chimpanzee.Together with seven other wild-

born chimps at NIH's Delta Re-gional Primate Research Center inCovington, La., he is helpingmedical researchers to better un-derstand human behavior. In theprocess, he has turned out to be anatural inventive genius.

Rock—Exceptional ChimpMonkeys and apes can be

trained to perform almost un-believable tasks —• but the highIQ of this exceptional chimpshowed in his ability to utilizethe principles of mechanicalstatics.

The researchers at Delta reportthat Rock and his friends virtual-ly "pole vaulted" in their earlyyears, using sticks and poles toget to higher vantage points.

The chimps were given a 3-footbroom for 15-minute periods dur-ing the day. Within a few days,they were standing the broom onits bristles, rapidly climbing itand jumping to the ceiling raf-ters—a height of 8 feet. Then,under Rock's instruction, they ad-vanced to sticks and poles.

Until last year the chimps, con-fined in a 16 x 100 foot outdoorenclosure, never used the polesfor anything other than vaulting.But an observation area installed

Then he climbed the pole,perched atop of it, and was ableto peer back into the observationwindow at will. The other chimpsfollowed suit.

Further evidence of Rock's en-gineering initiative occurred whenthe researchers installed shockwires 9 feet above the groundon the trunks of trees in the com-pound.

They wanted to keep the chimpsfrom eating the tender green

George S. Parish has been ap-pointed chief of the newly estab-lished Contracts and G r a n t sBranch of the National Eye In-stitute.

The branch will handle themanagerial aspects of the Insti-tute's grants and contracts pro-grams.

Its creation has been necessi-tated by the rapid expansion ofNEI support of contracts for ap-plied vision research.

A graduate of the Universityof Maryland, Mr. Parish came toNIH in 1964 as a grants man-agement assistant and in 1966 be-came grants management special-ist.

In 1969, he transferred to theHealth Services and Mental HealthAdministration as acting chief,Grants Management Section,Grants Administration Branch,Community Health Service.

Mr. Parish became a grantsmanagement officer in theHSMHA Regional Medical Pro-grams Service later that year,and in 1970 was appointed apublic health advisor in theHSMHA National Center forHealth Services Research and De-velopment.

Last June, he joined HEW'sSocial and Rehabilitation Serviceas chief of its Research Demon-stration Project Grants Branch.

leaves and shoots off thebranches. Rock carefully en-gineered a pole arrangement thatcircumvented the wires and gaveaccess to the greenery withoutany difficulty.

Rock had introduced ladder-making to his group, giving clearevidence of the perceptibility ofa nonhuman primate to solve a

(See ROCK, Page 6)

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New Process of Photographic Image TransformationMay Improve Ability to Explain Diagnostic X-rays

Roy H. Stratton (I), Jeannine V. Lamar, and Dr. Carl Gazley, discuss the quality ofpseudocolor transformations of chest images—shades of gray on X-rays convertedinto colors. The process should lead to improved interpretations of radiographs.

A photographic image transformation process which may considerablyimprove the radiologist's ability to interpret diagnostic radiographs hasbeen developed by Rand Corporation scientists in research sponsored bythe National Institute of GeneralMedical Sciences.

The basis of the image trans-formation process is the conver-sion of shades of gray to colors.This transformation has the ad-vantage of allowing the many re-corded intensity levels of the orig-inal image to be more readilydistinguished by the radiologist.

Human Vision LimitedThe evaluation of an X-ray

plate customarily involves the vis-ual analysis of a black-and-whitetransparency.

The human visual system isable to distinguish simultaneouslyonly about 15 shades of grayfrom black to white in such a

, complicated image.Thus, many of the subtle re-

corded details in the image (hun-dreds of shades of gray) are notperceived by the human observer.Grays Converted

The Rand research is concernedwith the determination of optimaltransformations for various typesof images and with evaluation ofthe degree of improvement inimage information transfer ac-complished by converting the re-corded gray scale into a chromaticscale.

The potential advantages ofsuch "pseudocolor" transforma-tions lie in the observer's abilityto distinguish simultaneouslymany more colors than gray levelsin a complex scene and to usethis information for pattern de-tection, recognition, and evalua-tion.

Advantages in medical applica-tions appear to be both in themore effective and more rapidevaluation by the radiologist and

also in the possibility of usingless skilled personnel for prelimi-nary screening of X-rays.

The pseudocolor transformationprocesses use relatively straight-forward photographic techniques

Converting hundreds of shades of grayinto separate colors could make X-raysinto a more precise diagnosis tech-nique. If the above photograph wereprinted in color, the angiogram wouldbe distinct which may aid a radiologistin distinguishing subtle abnormalities.

and standard photographic ma-terials and can be accomplishedin an ordinary darkroom.

The processes now are beingapplied to a variety of medicalimagery including mammograms,electron micrographs, chest films,skull angiograms, and middle-earlaminagrams.

Preliminary experiments havebeen made with a test series ofmiddle-ear laminagrams (X-raysof the cochlear region of the mid-dle ear).

The evaluation of these films

Medical School StudentsMay Apply for TrainingIn Clinical Specialties

Applications for 1972-73 clini-cal specialty elective courses arenow being accepted by NIH.

Any medical school student inthe Nation may apply for 9 weeksof training in one or more of fourspecialties: Endocrinology, Hema-tology, Immunology, and Comput-ers in Clinical Medicine.

The student works closely withclinical associates and physician-scientists in several of the Insti-tutes.Schedule Listed

Since the primary purpose ofpatients' hospitalization at theCenter is the need for clinical re-search, workups may be muchmore detailed and exposure toindividual patients much moreprolonged than in the usual teach-ing hospital.

Schedule of electives is: Oct. 2to Dec. 1, 1972; Jan. 8 to March9, 1973, and March 19 to May 18,1973.

Applications will be acceptedthrough March 1, 1972, and allapplicants will be notified byMarch 15, 1972.

In unusual situations, an ear-lier decision may be obtained, andlater applications will be consid-ered.

Course catalogs may be ob-tained from: Dr. Thomas C. Chal-mers, OC Director and Chairmanof the Committee on Special Elec-tives, NIH, Bethesda, Md. 20014.

is critical to the decision as towhether surgery can correct aparticular cause of deafness.

Analysis of pseudocolor ver-sions of these laminagrams byexperienced radiologists indicatesthat image evaluation is improvedappreciably.

In particular, an observer canperceive structures in the pseu-docolor transformation which arenot visible in the original radio-graph.

More extensive experiments arenow under way to determine therange of improvement possible byuse of these transformations.

Image transformation by com-puter processing techniques arealso being developed by Randwith NIGMS support; these areexpected to add considerable flex-ibility to the pseudocolor process.

Investigators on the project areDr. Carl Gazley, Jr., Roy H.Stratton, Jeannine V. Lamar, andDr. Joseph J. Sheppard, Jr., allof the Physical Sciences Depart-ment at The Rand Corporation.

Other collaborators are Drs.Eugene Coin and Amos Normanof the Radiology Department,University of California at LosAngeles Medical School.

Aliens Required to ReportCurrent Address in January

During January, each alienis required to notify the Im-migration and NaturalizationService, U.S. Department ofJustice, of his current address.

Visiting scientists and otheraliens working at NIH havebeen reminded of this require-ment.

The report form on which thenotification must be submittedis available at the FIC Interna-tional Visitors Center, Bldg.16A, or at any U.S. Post Office.

It should be completed, signed,and returned to a Post Officeclerk by Jan. 31.

Dr. Philip Corfman, NICHD,Selected as WHO Advisor

Dr. Philip A. Corfman, Directorof NICHD's Center for PopulationResearch, has been chosen as anadvisor to the World Health Or- tganization's international effortto develop methods of fertilityregulation.

The Advisory Group will coun-sel WHO on policy and prioritiesfor its Expanded Programme of "Research, Development, and Re-search Training in Human Re-production.

Dr. Corfman, an obstetrician-gynecologist, has headed the Na-tion's largest population researchagency since its inception in 1968.

He will advise WHO on identi-fication of priority research areasand the allocation of resources;the support of WHO Researchand Training Centres in HumanReproduction, and the creation ofclinical research centers to testfertility regulation agents on aglobal scale.

Donald L. Parsons has been appointedpersonnel officer for the Division of Re-search Grants. He was formerly with theBHME Personnel Office. Mr. Parsons hasalso held personnel positions with theOffice of the Surgeon General, HEW; theDepartment of the Army, and the Fed-eral Power Commission.

THE NIH RECORD January 18, 1972 Page 5

• Dr. William G. Hammond was recentlyappointed chief of the Clinical Investi-gations Branch, Extramural Activities,National Cancer Institute. He joinedNCI in 1964, and has been acting chief

' of that branch since 1970.

Dr. Samuel Itscoitz NamedNHLI Deputy Clinical Director

Dr. Samuel B. Itscoitz has beennamed deputy clinical director forthe National Heart and LungInstitute.

He will share responsibility forall Institute studies involving pa-tients or normal volunteers.

Dr. Itscoitz did his undergrad-uate work at Harvard, and re-ceived his M.D. in 1964 from theGeorge Washington UniversitySchool of Medicine.

After 3 years at Peter BentBrigham Hospital in Boston—thelast year was spent as a Cardio-logy Fellow—Dr. Itscoitz joinedthe PHS Commissioned Corps.

From 1967 to 1969, he was aHematology Branch, National In-stitute of Arthritis and MetabolicDiseases, and then he joined theNHLI Cardiology Branch as astaff investigator.

DR. DENNIS(Continued from Page 1)

1951 in the Department of Sur-gery. He also served as professorand administrative head of Sur-gery at the Minneapolis GeneralHospital from 1944 until 1951.

Dr. Dennis then joined the De-partment of Surgery as a pro-fessor at the State University ofNew York Downstate MedicalCenter.

Prior to joining the NHLI staff,he served as chairman of the de-partment since 1952; director ofSurgery and Surgical Specialtiesat Kings County Hospital, Uni-versity Division, since 1956, andsurgeon-in-chief there, and at theState University Hospital.

Between 1956 and 1959, Dr.Dennis was also director of Sur-gery at St. John's Episcopal Hos-pital in Brooklyn, and served as aconsultant to numerous hospitalsin the New York area.

Workshop on ToxemiaDefines Warning SignalsTo Prevent Eclampsia

Scientists from the U.S. andabroad attended a recent work-shop on toxemia—a complicationthat may cause death in expect-ant mothers and their infants, orneurological damage in the in-fants.

The meeting—"The First Inter-national Workship on ClinicalDiagnostic Criteria of Toxemia ofPregnancy"—was jointly sponsor-ed by the Perinatal ResearchBranch, National Institute ofNeurological Diseases and Stroke,and the Fogarty InternationalCenter. It was held at the Center.

Dr. Edward F. MacNichol, Jr.,NINDS Director; Dr. Milo D.Leavitt, Jr., FIC Director, andDr. R. Gordon Douglas, Chair-man of the Task Force on Toxe-mia, delivered opening remarks.

Researchers discussed the vari-ous isymptoms that might serve aswarning signals to prevent toxe-mic convulsions — eclampsiaSymptoms include a rise in themother's blood pressure, detectionof protein in the urine (pro-teinuria), and edema — fluid ac-cumulation in the face and hands.

Studies PresentedDr. Rudolf F. Vollman, Peri-

natal Research Branch, presenteda study on racial discrepanciesin toxemia and related disorders.Dr. Vollman is head of the Sec-tion on Obstetrics.

Two researchers, Drs. EmanuelA. Friedman and Bernard H.Fox, discussed the significance ofblood pressure as a possible fac-tor for diagnosing treatment ofeclampsia.

Dr. Friedman is a professorat Harvard University MedicalSchool, and Dr. Fox is assistantto the PRB chief.

Others attending the workshopincluded Dr. Warren V. Huber,associate director, NINDS' Col-laborative and Field ResearchSection, and Dr. Robert H. Buerk-li, a visiting scientist from Switz-erland who is now with the PRB.

Patient Emergency FundDonations Increase by 40%

NIH employees and friendscontributed nearly $7,000 to thePatient Emergency Fund throughthe Davis Plan during the holi-day season—a 40 percent increaseover last year's $5,000.

Once again, the plan's firstunit gift came from ODA's PlantEngineering Branch in theamount of $266.50.

Contributions also continue tocome from friends outside theNIH community.

Several donations were receivedwhen area newspapers praised theDavis Plan in which money savedfrom sending greeting cards toco-workers is donated instead tothe Patient Emergency Fund.

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not a 'conglomerate.' We are a'coalition.'"

The Secretary further stated:"If we are to make this De-

partment what it can be, andwhat any honest recognition ofour responsibilities to the Ameri-can people requires that it be,then we shall need the best ef-forts of everyone within the De-partment, civil servants, Presi-dential appointees, officers in theCommissioned Corps, employees ofall grades, women and men of allraces and backgrounds.

"I believe we are already gath-ering momentum, and that, withthe help of each person in thisDepartment, that momentum willdeepen and broaden, to the ulti-mate benefit of those whom we allseek to serve."

In conclusion, Secy. Richardsonnoted: "We in HEW are chargedwith a fourfold task—

"To identify the problems of thepeople and of the institutions withwhich we are concerned;

"To eliminate the gaps betweenpromise and performance by set-ting and meeting attainable goals;

"To make the best possible useof the resources we have; and

"To fight for the additional re-sources we know how to use well."

Robert Mehnert NamedNLM Special Assistant,Communications Media

Robert B. Mehnert has beennamed Special Assistant, Com-munications Media, at the Na-tional Library of Medicine.

Mr. Mehnert comes to the Li-brary from the National Insti-tute of Mental Health, where heserved as public information of-ficer for various programs, in-cluding community mental healthcenters, alcoholism, and drugabuse.

Most recently he was detailed to

Prior to rejoining NLM, Mr. Mehnertwas on detail to the White HouseSpecial Action Office for Drug AbusePrevention.

the staff of Dr. Jerome H. Jaffe,Director of the White House Spe-cial Action Office for Drug AbusePrevention.

Mr. Mehnert attended the Uni-versity of Buffalo where he re-ceived the B.A. degree in 1963.On graduation, he joined the Fed-eral Government as an HEWmanagement intern.

He previously served on theNLM staff from 1965 to 1968 asa public information specialistin the office he now heads.

Scientists attending this first international meeting, a joint undertaking ofNINDS and FIC, discussed all phases of research data and their significance inpreventing fetal and maternal deaths.

NICHD Intramural ProgramBegins Plans for Expansion

As part of the National Insti-tute of Child Health and HumanDevelopment's expanding Intra-mural Program, three new floorswill be added to the Clinical Cen-ter's D wing.

These facilities will house thePregnancy Research and Perina-tal Biology Branches of NICHD.

The architectural firm ofFaulkner, Fryer, and Vanderpoolof Washington, D.C., has beenselected to design the additions.

The firm will provide plans forconstruction of the eighth, ninth,and 10th floors which will housematernity patients, a deliveringsuite and newborn nursery fornormal and intensive care, andresearch laboratories.

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Special Programs OfficeIn BHME to ImprovePatterns of Training

An Office of Special Programshas been established in the Bureauof Health Manpower Education toadminister new grant and con-tract programs authorized by therecently enacted ComprehensiveHealth Manpower Training Act of1971.

The new Office will developeducational and training pro-grams to improve the distributionof health personnel by geographicarea and specialty.

Scope Broadened

It will also initiate or improvepatterns of training.

The scope of the new unit in-cludes training for physicians'assistants, team training, con-tinuing education, and advancedtraining of health personnel.

An important part of the Of-fice's activity will be the estab-lishment of cooperative arrange-ments among educational insti-tutions and health service facili-ties to provide clinical trainingin medically underserved areas.

The new Office will also ad-minister a computer researchprogram to determine which func-tions now performed by physi-cians can foe carried out by otherpersonnel.

NHLI Sponsors MeetingOn Research AnimalsJan. 28-30 in D.C.

A National Conference on Re-search Animals in Medicine willbe held Jan. 28-30, at the Wash-ing Hilton Hotel, Washington,D. C, under sponsorship of the

Medical DevicesApplications Pro-gram of the Na-tional Heart andLung Institute.

The conferencewill be chaired byDr. Lowell T. Har-mison of NHLI.

The meeting willconsider the status

Dr. Harmison of animal cardiacand pulmonary models and tech-niques of large animal researchwith emphasis on medical devicesfor increasing the utility of animalsin support of clinical research.

The 3-day meeting will featuremore than 100 presentations in-cluding a definition of test-animalrequirements for cardiopulmonaryresearch and development activi-ties.

Participants will also reviewanimal models simulating variouscardiac, pulmonary, and systemicdiseases.

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given problem.Rock had to coordinate his eyes,

hands, the pole, the ground, orrunway, and his vertical support(the tree or wall), in order tocircumvent the shock wire.

This development at Delta grewout of a 2-year study of grouporganization and communicationamong chimps.

It is only one offshoot of some500 studies presently being con-ducted at the seven regional pri-mate research centers that areadministered by the Division ofResearch Resources through itsAnimal Resources Branch.

Biomedical researchers are plac-ing more important emphasis onmonkeys and apes as ideal labora-tory models to aid in finding asolution to human illness.

Primates Aid Research

Primates have already mademany decisive contributions tohealth. The d i s c o v e r y ofpoliomyelitis vaccines and in-vestigations of the Rh factor inhuman blood would not have beenpossible without the use ofmonkeys as laboratory models.

They have also been used in re-search for such diseases as ma-laria and measles; congenitalmalformations; fat in the bloodand its relationship to hardeningof the arteries; brain damage,and the influence of pre-birthfactors on subsequent deformities.

Of the almost 7,700 nonhumanprimates at the centers, Rhesusmonkeys (macaques) predomi-nate. They make up nearly halfof the entire colony population,and are especially suitable formany biological studies.

Further understanding of dia-betes was achieved this yearwhen a group of scientists at theOregon Regional Primate ResearchCenter perfected a new techniquein developing the pig-t a i lmacaque as a perfect laboratorymodel for this disease.

New Treatment Developed

Another research team at theOregon Center using Rhesus mon-keys, has developed a new treat-ment that may help hay fever suf.ferers. It involves a low molecu-lar weight portion of timothygrass pollen.

In the West, this pollen is amajor cause of hay fever mucousbuild-up in throat and nasal pas-sages.

In clinical trials with allergicpatients, the new compound de-cisively reduced the number ofharmful hay fever producing an-tibodies.

Researchers at the New EnglandCenter successfully developed amethod for producing lympho-cytic leukemia in the owl monkey.

2 Appointed to NationalAllergy Advisory Council

Dr. Philip S. Norman and Mar-ian W. Bell have been appointedto the National Advisory Allergyand Infectious Diseases Council.The appointments will be effec-tive until September 1975.

Dr. Norman—one of the coun-try's foremost authorities on al-lergies—is associate professor ofMedicine at the Johns HopkinsUniversity School of Medicine.

He heads the school's Divisionof Clinical Immunology and isassociate physician-in-charge ofthe Allergy Clinic at the JohnsHopkins Hospital.

Mrs. Bell is an active volunteerin numerous health-related civicorganizations nationally and inPennsylvania.

She is a board member of Com-munity Services of Pennsylvania,the Health and Research ServicesFoundation of Allegheny County,the Women's Committee of WestPenn Hospital in Pittsburgh, andthe Board of Governors of theHolmes House (Home for Incur-ables) in Pittsburgh.

Two Publications DescribeClinical Training Programs

The 1972 catalog of the Asso-ciate Training Programs in theMedical and Biological Sciencesat the National Institutes ofHealth and the 1972-73 edition ofClinical Electives for MedicalStudents are now available.

The 100-page Associate Train-ing Programs catalog describesthe 2-year program for clinicalassociates, research associates,and staff associates, including de-tails on the Commissioned Of-ficer Residency Deferment Pro-gram and the Early Commission-ing Program (PHS Senior CO-STEP Program).

The Clinical Electives publica-tion is directed to senior medicalstudents who wish to acquireclinical experience in Endoc-rinology, Hematology, Immunology,or an understanding of the use ofComputers in Clinical Medicine.

Both publications may foe ob-tained from the Clinical Center'sClinical and Professional ServicesSection, Bldg. 10, Room 1S-229,Ext. 62427.

This type accounts for 80 per-cent of all childhood leukemia.

The leukemia was induced by in-jections of Herpesvirus saimiri, avirus found in latent form insquirrel monkeys.

Projects relating to recent find-ings will include research on can-cer-causing viruses, organ rejec-tion, nutrition, food additives,and the effects of drugs on thedeveloping embryo.

Before presenting the recent annualJules Freund Seminar, Dr. Herman N.Eisen (r) receives a commemorative scrollfrom Dr. Sanford H. Stone, NIAID Labo-ratory of Microbiology. Dr. Eisen, whoheads the Department of Microbiology,Washington University School of Medi-cine, St. Louis, spoke on Myeloma Pro-teins as Antibodies and Tumor-SpecificAntigens.

-Yale University MeetingDiscusses Issues RelatingTo Renal Micropuncture

A Renal Micropuncture Work-shop, partially supported by a ^contract from the National Insti-tute of Arthritis and MetabolicDiseases, was held recently atYale University.

The 2-day meeting was chairedby Dr. Gerhard Giebisch, Depart- 4ment of Physiology, Yale Univer-sity 'School of Medicine, who ispresident of the AmericanNephrology Society.

Dr. Keatha K. Krueger, scien-tific communications o f f i c e r ,NIAMD, represented the Instituteat the meeting.

The agenda included discussionsof micropuncture fluid collection »techniques, nephron populations,stationary perfusion methods,continuous perfusion, s i n g l enephron preparations, cation-selec-tive electrodes, and new develop-ments.

A number of controversial is-sues have developed in therapidly-growing area of micro-puncture. This technique allows forthe opportunity to examine andstudy kidney function directly atthe basic anatomical level, thesingle nephron.

Renal micropuncture is nowwidely used and has providedsignificant new i n f o r m a t i o n .However, discrepancies in the re- <suits and problems of interpreta-tion have arisen, which the meet-ing helped partially to resolve.

Dr. Giebisch is preparing a isummary of the workshop. It willbe published by the GovernmentPrinting Office within a fewmonths.

Show me a seismologist, saysa wise-cracking scientist, and I'llshow you a fault-finder.—MedicalWorld News.

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Monsanto, the sole U.S. pro-ducer of the industrial chemical,has restricted its role for use inclosed systems only, because ofpoissible food contamination or

. possible environment contamina-tion.

t Dr. Norton Nelson, Director ofthe Institute of Environmental

v Medicine, New York UniversityMedical Center, discussed the

t complex nature of the industrialchemical, and the need for fur-

• ther research, stressing effects onthe environment, and the toxic

v effects on human health.He also suggested that possible

v alternatives should be consideredand investigated for toxic effects

• before being introduced into theenvironment.

The conference was recommend-ed by an Interdepartmental TaskForce established last Septemberto define and deal with problems,

**" and to exchange information onFCB's.

Agencies on the Task Force in-, elude the FDA, USDA, EPA, De-

partments of Commerce and Jus-n tice, the Office of Science and

Technology, the Council on En-^ vironmental Quality, and NIEHS.

Conference proceedings will bepublished this coming spring. Itwill be the first issue of anNIEHS journal entitled Environ-mental Health in Perspective.

Missing Your Salary Check?Use 'Emergency Pay Plan'

Employees who do not receivea salary check on pay day orwho receive an underpayment of25 percent or more may take ad-vantage of the NIH "EmergencyPay Plan."

If for any reason no check, oran underpayment, is received, acheck may be issued from NIHemergency funds not to exceed75 percent of gross pay.

The employee's timekeeper orpayroll representative should becontacted for instructions andnecessary forms.

The request must be submittedto the Disbursing Services Section,Operations Accounting Branch,OFM, Bldg. 31, Room B1B-34,no later than 3 p.m. on pay dayto assure receipt of an emergencycheck by the following Thursday.Must Reimburse Quickly

When the regular or supplemen-tal check arrives from HEW, theemployee is asked to reimbursethe NIH emergency fund by per-sonal check at the cashier's officein Bldg. 31 no later than the nextworkday.

Commissioned officer personnelhave separate procedures andshould contact their administra-tive officer.

Computer Monitors Drugs for Patients;Margin for Medication Errors Lessened

Dr. Cohen (r) and Hiram Sera, Director of Pharmacy, are responding to a seriesof question prompts at a computer video unit in the Stanford U. Hospitalpharmacy. Eventually, the system will produce an "alert" when a new drugis prescribed that may interact with medication the patient is taking.

The first stage of a computer-based system for the prevention ofundesirable drug interactions in hospitalized patients went into opera-tion recently at Stanford University Medical Center.

The system, developed by scien- —tists in the Division of ClinicalPharmacology, utilizes Stanford'sAdvanced Computer for MedicalResearch (ACME) to automati-cally monitor all drugs dispensedto patients at the University Hos-pital.

Ultimately, it will produce acomputer-generated "alert" eachtime a newly prescribed drug hasthe potential of interacting witha drug the patient is already re-ceiving.

The program is under the di-rection of Dr. Stanley N. Cohen,who holds an NIH Career De-velopment Award.DRR Sponsors

Dr. Cohen, associate professorof Medicine and head of the Divi-

entered into the ACME computerfile, will be used for the druginteraction control system.

At present, the system enablesStanford's pharmacists to recorddrugs dispensed for patients bythe use of a computer-controlledtelevision-like unit located in thepharmacy.System Alerts Doctor

After the pharmacist respondsto a series of question prompts atthe video terminal, the computerautomatically prints out a medi-cation label a n d simultaneouslys t o r e s appropriate informationabout the drug and patient in itsfile.

When the completed system isput into operation, a "drug inter-

sion of Clinical Pharmacology at action report" will be generatedthe School of Medicine, developedthe system with his associates,Drs. M a r s h a Armstrong andGilbert Hunn, DCP, and LindaCrouse, ACME.

The computer is operated withfunds administered by the Divi-sion of Research Resources.

The system was developed to"detect and identify potentiallyinteracting drug combinations be-fore the second drug is admin-istered to the patient," Dr. Cohenexplained.

For the past 2 years, Stanford'sDivision of Clinical Pharmacologyhas been compiling a large, docu-mented data-base of information oninteracting drug combinations.

This material, which has been

by the computer. It will be sentalong to the physician with themedication whenever a newlyprescribed drug may interact withone a patient is already receiving.

This report will contain infor-mation about the pharmacologicbasis for the interaction, poten-tial clinical effects, clinical signi-ficance of the interaction, anddocumentation from medical liter-ature.

The system will also providesafeguards against certain typesof medication errors by au-tomatically verifying patient iden-tification numbers and bed loca-tions. In addition it will printout patient medication profilesfor use by the hospital nursingstaff.

DDH Holds 2 Seminars;Discusses New Zealand'sDental Nurse Education

The New Zealand dental nurse,a unique figure in the interna-tional dental picture, was the sub-ject of two seminars held in De-cember for the staff of the Divi-sion of Dental Health, BHME,and guests from NIH.

Dr. Ronald Nevin, Principal ofthe School for Dental Nurses,Christ Church, N. Z., visited DDHto discuss the nurses' training.

He explained the qualificationsfor becoming a dental nurse, theschool's training program, andwhat the eorps of nurses has ac-complished during its 50-yearhistory.Training Described

Dr. Jay Friedman, School ofPublic Health, University of Cali-fornia at Los Angeles, presentedhis view of the New Zealand sys-tem, based on a month's visit there.

The New Zealand governmenthas been hiring and trainingwomen to supervise and improvethe oral health of the country'schildren, ages 2% to 13.

The corps numbers about 1,300with some 200 women entering itsranks yearly after a rigid 2-yearprogram in operative dentistryand health education.

According to Dr. Nevin, theschool dental nurse has been agreat success.Achievements Noted

In 1921, when the program be-gan, nurses were performingsome 115 extractions per 100 fill-ings. In 1970, the average num-ber had dropped to 2.9 extractionsper 100 fillings.

Dr. Nevin pointed out that thedental nurse not only maintainsthe oral health of school childrenunder her care, but her presencein the community also draws at-tention to oral hygiene.

Since the inception of the pro-gram, fewer children enter schoolwith extensive dental problems.

Employees With RagweedAllergy Needed for StudyThe National Heart and Lung

Institute's Experimental Ther-apeutics Branch is seeking NIHemployees with ragweed allergy(hay fever or asthma) to aid aresearch study on histaminerelease.

Volunteers will receive asimple skin test. If the test ispositive, two blood samples willbe taken at separate times.

Subjects will receive $2 forthe skin test and each bloodsample.

For appointments call Dr.Floyd Atkins, Ext. 65375.

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CC Blood Bank Invites NIH Employees to Open House for View of Latest Procedures

Employees will see firsthand on Jan 31 how donated blood is processed forpatient use—including some of the areas where it is typed and tested.

During the Open House, an Au antigentest will be demonstrated.

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terming the effectiveness of thetherapy to control the blood pres-sure, and the extent to which dis-ability and death are thereby re-duced.

To accomplish this requiresseveral years of time (e.g., thetime-lag from onset of damagingpressure elevation to heart, brainor kidney damage) and enoughcooperating members for a sta-tistical demonstration of the bene-fits.Committee Drafts Plans

Phase II plans have now beendrafted by a Steering Commit-tee, made up of the principal in-vestigators from each of the nineclinical centers, together with theprogram's statistical Coordinat-ing Center.

The Coordinating Center, at theUniversity of Texas, is responsi-ble for the analysis, storage andretrieval of all data relating tothe program.

NHLI is requesting contractproposals from clinical centerswhich may have the capabilitiesand interests to participate in thecooperative Hypertension Detec-tion and Follow-up Program.

Chamber Music Concert to GiveProgram of Brahms Waltzes

The fourth concert in the 1971-72 Chamber Music series of theFoundation for Advanced Educa-tion in the Sciences will be pre-sented Sunday, Jan. 30, at 4 p.m.in the Clinical Center's JackMasur Auditorium.

Lillian Kallir and Claude Frank,piano duo, will present a programof Bra'hms liebeslieder waltzes,and other music by Dvorak andMozart. A vocal quartet will alsotoe featured.

The group performed previous-ly at NIH in the 1969-70 season.

Admission is by ticket only.

The Clinical Center Blood Bank will hold an Open House, Monday,Jan. 31, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. All NIH employees are invited.

High point of the day's events will be the drawing for the winner

Received Any Transfusions?Blood Bank Test Needs You

Blood from healthy peoplewho have received at least onetransfusion during their life-time is needed for a test beingconducted by the Clinical CenterBlood Bank.

Donors will be paid $2 for the25 ml. sample which will beused as part of an NIH re-search program to determinethe persistence of various anti-gens and antibodies among in-dividuals who received trans-fusions.

Blood will be taken in CCRoom 4D-51, Mondays throughFridays, between 2 and 4:30p.m.

Call Bonnie Freeman, Ext.62248 or 66339, for an appoint-ment.

Visitors will view the area where bloodis processed, stored, and issued.

Cancer Panelists, OtherScientists to Comment

Drivers' Night Vision NeedsTime to Adapt to Darkness

A driver's vision at night willimprove dramatically if he waitsa few minutes before driving offinto the dark, according to theBritish Association of OpticalPractitioners.

It takes about 15 minutes fora driver's eyes to become com-pletely accustomed to the dark,the Association claims, but fewmotorists wait even 15 seconds.

They come out of a lightedbuilding, jump into a car anddrive off. They are, in fact, parti-ally blind.

The Association's findings, cov-ered in the D.C. Traffic SafetyReporter, conclude that 17-year-old drivers should wait at least2 or 3 minutes, and 60-year-olddrivers at least 5 minutes fordark adaptation. However, it takes15 minutes for a driver to gainhis best dark vision.

of the 17-inch Sony portablecolor TV at 3:30 p.m. from thelottery of donors who have given On Preliminary Planblood since Aug. 1, 1971.

Employees have until the draw-ing to donate and enter the contest.

Throughout the day, tours ofthe Blood Bank will be conducted,and films about blood and its useswill be shown.

Demonstrations and exhibits willillustrate some of the latest BloodBank procedures.

New Test Developed

Included will be a demonstra-tion of the newly developed testfor Au antigen—the agent as-sociated with the liver diseasehepatitis that may be transmittedthrough blood transfusions.

This test was developed by CCBlood Bank scientists and, par-tially as a result of their efforts,is now being used nationally.

Use of the test has helped re-duce the incidence of blood-trans-mitted hepatitis in heart surgerypatients from 50 percent to lessthan 10 percent.

Increased use of employee-do-nated blood has also contributedto the control of hepatitis amongCC patients.

The computerized system ofhandling donor information willalso be displayed at the openhouse.

Computers Are Helpful

Computerization has enabledthe Blood Bank to utilize moreNIH donors, eliminating the needto purchase whole blood fromcommercial sources.

The Open House offers an op-portunity for NIH employees tomeet the Blood Bank staff andtour the facility.

Also, it provides an excellentchance for the 1,900 employeeswho gave almost three times eachlast year to see what happens todonations.

A preliminary draft of an Exec-utive Summary of the NationalCancer Plan will be ready inMarch for examination by thebiomedieal scientists who partici-pated in four planning sessions.

The National Cancer Institutewill integrate into the draftrecommendations from the plan-ning meetings and from the scien-tific community.

The 41 chairmen of the plan-ning panels ('held in October, No-vember, December, and early Janu-ary) will meet in March and of-fer their comments, and those oftheir panel members, on the draft.

On the basis of their sugges-tions, the Executive Summary willbe presented to Congress by Dr.Carl G. Baker, NCI Director,when he testifies before the Sub-committee of the House of Rep-resentatives' Committee on Ap-propriations.

After the Congressional hear-ing, the National Cancer Plan willbe completed some time in June.

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Staff members will explain how acomputer organizes donor informationand produces it in split seconds whenblood is needed for a CC patient.