Describes a study which compared the height, weight, and prevalence of protein-calorie malnutrition in South African Negro and white preschool children from rural and urban communities. (SF)

Reports a study in which the statural growth of more than 10,000 lower-income black and white children was compared by age and sex. (Author/SF)

The sera of 53 patients with Down's syndrome and their families were tested for hepatitis-associated antigen. (Author)

Laron's syndrome, characterized by severe dwarfism, high circulating levels of immunoreactive growth hormone, and failure to generate somatomedin after administration of human growth hormone, was studied in a boy 7 1/2 years of age. (MC)

Philip Handler, President of the National Academy of Sciences, feels that the Nixon administration's budget may drive academic biomedical research into chaos. (Author/PG)

Urine samples of 668 Swedish children with progressive psycho-motor retardation, coarse facies, and, in some cases, skeletal changes and vacuolated lymphocytes, were examined by means of high voltage paper electrophoresis. (DB)

Evaluated is the treatment of diabetic retinopathy (blindness due to ruptured vessels of the retina as a side effect of diabetes), and described is a research project comparing two types of photocoagulation treatment. (DB)

Paper reports on the patterns of heavy use of two drugs, marihuana and alcohol, in relation to a variety of demographic, social, and personal factors. (Author)

Reported was the occurrence of an intense grey-brown discoloration of the skin, serum, and urine, and anemia in a premature infant when phototherapy was used to reduce hyperbilirubinemia. (CB)