Investigated in 16 persons ages 3 to 23 years with severe cystic fibrosis was the absorption level of digoxin (a lipid soluble medication). (CL)

Effects of luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LH-RH) on LH and follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) release were studied in 26 normal children and six patients (from 1-to 14-years-old) with Turner's syndrome. (Author)

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) are seeking to improve communications with the academic community, to utilize the NIH advisory apparatus more effectively in the development of NIH programs, and to develop uniform policies with specific criteria for selecting grants to fund extramural research. (Editor/PG)

This book contains 16 papers from the 1974 conference held by the Pregnancy and Infancy Branch of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to: (1) assess the photobiological processes involved in phototherapy used in treatment of neonatal hyperbilirubinemia, and (2) to document long term clinical experience with the treatment…

Examined were eight patients with cerebro-hepato-renal syndrome of Zellweger (associated with severe cerebral dysfunction, hypotonia and unusual appearance). (CL)

Presented are case studies of two children, 2-and 14 years-old, with widely differing manifestations of B-glucuronidase deficiency: one child was severly retarded with multiple anomalies, the other child exhibited milder symptoms with cardiovasculor involvement. (CL)

Compared were cardiac characteristics (atrial septal defect, patent ductus arteriosus, entricular septal defect, or endocardial cusion defects) in 69 children with Down's syndrome (mongolism) and 315 non-Downs children with similar cardiac anomalies. (DB)

A new test designed to detect an hereditary eye disease called retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is described. This condition is revealed by pigmentation in the retina, but early diagnosis is difficult because the symptoms are subtle, and since it is genetically recessive it frequently occurs in families with no history of early blindness. In many cases…

The paper considers the future of education, particularly special education, in terms of theory. Reviewed is research in neurology relating to contra-lateral development in brain hemispheres, cephalo-caudal and caudal-cephalo myelination patterns or neural systems, and integration of neural patterns and neo-cortical control of the brain. Also…

Students are often fascinated by the described experiences of others involving the use of many drugs and chemical substances. This abstract of factual information about drugs and their effects assembled by the Office of Orientation, Student Affairs Counseling Office, University of Michigan should make it possible to be informed on the subject and…

This reports a conference of psychologists, psychiatrists, geneticists and others concerned with the biological and psychological effects of lysergic acid diethylamide and other hallucinogenic drugs. Clinical data are presented on adverse drug reactions. The difficulty of determining the causes of adverse reactions is discussed, as are different…