Word: pathologist
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Reye Syndrome. This malady primarily attacks children between the ages of five and eleven. No cause has been identified, but the syndrome has been linked to viral illness, commonly striking its young victims as they recover from chicken pox or influenza. The symptoms, described by Australian Pathologist R.D.K. Reye in 1963, are severe vomiting, followed by lethargy and later by personality changes, convulsions, coma and even death. The syndrome is rare. Last year fewer than 600 cases occurred in the U.S., mostly during the flu months of January, February and March. Both the public and physicians are becoming more familiar...
Replacing such animals, at a time when they are increasingly endangered in the wild, is almost impossible. Says Pathologist Kurt Benirschke, the San Diego Zoo's director of research: "Five years ago, if a tiger died, you paid $2,000 and bought a new one. You can't do that any more." So zoos find themselves assuming a new responsibility. Besides exhibiting animals, they must keep ailing ones like...
This magic pill theory has long been popular in the running community, particularly among middle-aged males, a group that is at especially high coronary risk. The theory's most outspoken advocate is Dr. Thomas Bassler, an Inglewood, Calif., pathologist. Dr. William C. Roberts, chief of the pathology branch of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, and Colleague Bruce Waller have provided clinical evidence that Bassler is wrong. They studied the cases of five middle-aged men, 40 to 53, who died while running, including Maryland Congressman Goodloe Byron, a six-time Boston Marathon finisher...
...University of Wisconsin in Madison, scientists have resorted to cloning, hybridization and other techniques to develop many kinds of disease-resistant elm. But none look like Ulmus americana, and all proved unpopular. Says Plant Pathologist Eugene Smalley: "The resistance thing is the easy part. Getting a tree that nurseries will use, that's tough." Smalley's best hope: a rare hybrid called the Sapporo Autumn Gold elm, a cross of Japanese and Siberian elms. It resists the disease and, at least in its youth, resembles the American...
...latest tactic against the fungus pits bug against bug. Plant Pathologist Gary Strobel at Montana State University has been injecting pseudomonad bacteria into infected trees: the microbes multiply and attack the fungus. Strobel's program is still in the experimental stage, but there have been some modestly promising results. In Sioux Falls, S. Dak., for instance, injections were given to 20 badly diseased trees; seven were saved...