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Medical applications are also being rapidly developed. Researchers at Maryland's Johns Hopkins have made a pill slightly larger than a daily vitamin supplement that has a silicon thermometer and the electronics necessary to broadcast instant temperature readings to a recording device. By having a patient swallow the pill, doctors can pinpoint worrisome hot spots anywhere within the digestive tract. Future "smart pills" may transmit information about heart rates, stomach acidity or neural functions. Says Russell Eberhart, program manager at Johns Hopkins' Applied Physics Laboratory: "This could change the way we diagnose and monitor patients...
Questions concerning industry's role in academia took center stage at the Med School when it was disclosed that Sheffer C.G. Tseng, an ophthalmology fellow, had apparently acted unethically in his research. Tseng was found by the University to have exaggerated results of his experiments on a vitamin A treatment for dry-eye disease while owning substantial stock in the company that manufactures the drug...
...they were given benign missions like retrieving objects from the sea bottom and helping in underwater-rescue efforts. Inevitably, however, it occurred to military planners that the highly intelligent dolphins, which can swim at speeds of up to 26 m.p.h., dive more than 1,000 ft. and find a vitamin capsule while blindfolded, might be turned into underwater patrols...
...Philadelphia, forced millions of Americans to ask themselves, however fleetingly, whether to take a risk by eating. That the fruit at the salad bar, the peach in Johnny's lunch box, the raspberries in the refrigerator, could be poisonous turned the world upside down. Could the stuff of vitamin C and Cezanne still lifes be hazardous? Was an apple a day more likely to bring the doctor than keep him away? What was the world coming...
...report from the National Research Council urges people to cut the fat, skimp on alcohol, limit the meat, pile on the vegetables and skip the vitamin pills...